TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction 3
Pt. I The Greek Background 7
Ch. 1 The Gorgon at the Feast 9
Gorgon and Gorgoneion 11
Pindar 14
Eumenides 19
A Medicine to Produce Aidos 30
Pt. II Plot: The Soul of Tragedy 41
Ch. 2 Philia and Tragic Imitation 44
Imitation 45
Representation 48
Production: Tragedy Imitates Nature 53
Similarity 63
Theoria 66
Philia 70
Ch. 3 Plot and Character 83
The Plot-Character Distinction 83
Ethos 92
Ethos as Part of Tragedy 94
The Spoudaioi 100
Problems 103
Plot and Ethos in the Greek Tragedies 107
Ch. 4 Necessity, Probability, and Plausibility 111
Necessity and Probability 111
Plausibility, Plot, and Episode 119
Ch. 5 Parts and Wholes 132
The Parts of the Plot 132
Pathos 134
Peripeteia 141
Recognition 153
Good and Bad Plots 160
Poetics 13: Changes and Characters 161
Poetics 14: Pathos and Recognition 170
Pt. III Pity and Fear 177
Ch. 6 Fear, Pity, and Shame in Aristotle's Philosophy 181
Pity, Fear, and Physical Danger 181
Fear of Disgrace: Aidos and Aischune 189
Aristotle and the Greek Tradition 190
Rhetoric 192
Nicomachean Ethics 193
Eudemian Ethics 199
Aidos, Excellence, and Habituation 203
Kataplexis and Ekplexis 216
Summary 222
Ch. 7 Tragic Emotion 226
Pity and Pear in the Poetics 226
Aesthetic and Real-Life Emotion 238
Flight and Pursuit 238
Tragedy and Rhetoric 246
Pt. IV Katharsis 255
Ch. 8 Katharsis and the Critical Tradition 257
The Definition of Tragedy 257
The Homeopathic Prejudice 260
Homeopathy: Theoretical Problems 266
Homeopathy: The Ancient Evidence 278
Ch. 9 Katharsis in Aristotle's Philosophy 291
Overview 292
Physical Katharsis 300
Katharsis of the Katamenia 300
Medical Katharsis 306
Psychic Katharsis 314
Purity 315
Psychic and Physical Excellence 317
Politics 8 320
Iron and Wood 327
The Platonic Elenchus 331
Ch. 10 Tragic Katharsis 337
Glossary 361
Aristotelian Texts Used 363
Bibliography 365
Index of Passages Cited 381
General Index 405
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