Madness in Ancient Literature
Madness in Ancient Literature
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- Author
- O'Brien-Moore, Ainsworth
- Publishers
- Kessinger Publishing, United States, 2010 Facsimile of Wagner, Sohn Weimar 1924 Ed.
- Keyword
- Classica Ancient Rome Greece
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- State of preservation
- As New
- Binding
- Softcover
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8vo lge 280 x 216 mm. 232 pages. facsimile reprint The chief interest of this dissertation will lie in the study of the elevated representations of madness in literature of the grand manner; the popular, medical, cosmic and to a lesser extent, the social and legal aspects of the subject will be considered only as a contrast and background to the literary. Contents: popular conception of madness; medical conception; reverberations of the medical conception in literature; general attitude of comedy towards madness; madness in elevated literature, Homer and the deistic conception; Aeschylus; Sophocles and Bacchylides; Euripides; madness after the tragedians; Roman tragedians; Vergil; fury after Vergil; late Greek epic, Quintas Smyrnaeus; Nonnus; Seneca s Hercules Furens; madness of mantic inspiration
