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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824855703321

Autore

Sullivan Shirley Darcus <1945->

Titolo

Aeschylus' use of psychological terminology : traditional and new / / Shirley Darcus Sullivan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Buffalo : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 1997

©1997

ISBN

1-282-85445-3

9786612854453

0-7735-6655-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 288 pages)

Disciplina

882/.01

Soggetti

Greek literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-283) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Phrēn in the Tragedies: Part One -- Phrēn in the Tragedies: Part Two -- Phrēn and Its Cognates in the Suppliants -- Thumos in the Tragedies -- “Heart” in the Tragedies -- Nous, Prapides, and Psychē in the Tragedies -- Psychic Terms in Each Tragedy -- Conclusion -- An Overview of Psychic Entities -- Psychic Terms in Each Tragedy -- Adjectives and Participles with Psychic Terms -- Cognate Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives, and Nouns -- Hēpar and Splanchna -- Phrēn and Its Cognates in the Suppliants -- The Prometheus Bound: An Overview -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index of Passages Discussed -- General Index

Sommario/riassunto

Sullivan focuses on eight key psychological terms - phr n, thumos, kardia, kear, tor, nous, prapides, and psych - that appear frequently in ancient Greek texts but which have a wide range of possible meanings. Gathering instances from The Persians, Seven against Thebes, Suppliants, Agamemnon, Choephoroi, and Eumenides (instances from Prometheus Bound, whose authorship is in question, are treated in notes and an appendix), Sullivan first examines each psychic term separately. She then discusses instances of the terms in each play, examining the meaning of the psychic term in the context of the play in



which it appears and providing details on Aeschylus' usage. This book sheds light on the rich and sometimes elaborate way in which Aeschylus uses psychological terminology and is an excellent reference for classicists, psychologists, philosophers, and scholars of comparative literature.