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Whom Gods Destroy Ruth Padel

Whom Gods Destroy By Ruth Padel

Whom Gods Destroy by Ruth Padel

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The author of this treatise demonstrates how the Western perception of madness as violent and damaging evolved from ancient Greek tragedies. Drawing on anthropology and psychoanalysis as well as classical literature, she probes the Greek language of madness.

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Whom Gods Destroy: Elements of Greek and Tragic Madness by Ruth Padel

Madness is central to Western tragedy in all epochs, but we find the origins of this centrality in early Greece: in Homeric insight into the "damage a damaged mind can do." Greece, and especially tragedy, gave the West its permanent perception of madness as violent and damaging. Drawing on her deep knowledge of anthropology, psychoanalysis, Shakespeare, and the history of madness, as well as of Greek language and literature, Ruth Padel probes the Greek language of madness, which is fundamental to tragedy: translating, making it reader-friendly to nonspecialists, and showing how Greek images continued through medieval and Renaissance societies into a "rough tragic grammar" of madness in the modern period.

Whom Gods Destroy Reviews

"The sound of clay-footed idols crashing into the abyss resonates throughout Ruth Padel's thrillingly learned, poetically vibrant and eclectically visionary monograph... [A] fascinating new book."--Financial Times "To re-create the contexts in which the Greeks viewed madness, Padel ranges widely, drawing on the medical literature, Homer, Pindar and their scholiasts, epigraphic material, magic and religion, regional and cultural differences. Linguistic details validate her main thesis, ... [and] her re-creation of Greek linguistic categories and cultural norms gives Whom Gods Destroy a sound historical base. A well-informed and helpful book."--Brian Vickers, The Times Literary Supplement "A lively and provocative book. An attraction of Whom Gods Destroy is its breadth of reference, expanding beyond the Greeks to more recent times."--Richard Jenkyns, The [London] Times "Thrillingly learned, vibrant, and visionary... [Padel] shows brilliantly how the Greek playwrights revised and re-shaped their linguistic and intellectual inheritance to fit the context of an inchoate scientific revolution ... "--Paul Cartledge, The Financial Times "A various, wide-ranging book... The ideas are suggestive and tantalizing."--Jasper Griffin, The Spectator "Suggestive, exhilarating, and wide-ranging."--Peter Jones, The Telegraph

About Ruth Padel

Ruth Padel, recently Visiting Professor in the Modern Greek Program at Princeton University, is a freelance writer and prize-winning poet. She is the author of three books of poems and of In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self (Princeton).

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations Ch. 1. Introduction: "He First Makes Mad" Pt. 1. Language and Timing Ch. 2. Tragic Madness Words Ch. 3. God of the Verb Ch. 4. Temporary versus Long-term Madness Pt. 2. Darkness and Vision Ch. 5. Inner Shadow Ch. 6. The Afterlife of Inner Blackness Ch. 7. Dark, Twisted Seeing Ch. 8. True Seeing Ch. 9. A Legacy of True Mad Seeing Pt. 3. Isolation: Wandering, Disharmony, Pollution Ch. 10. Stone: Madness Is Outside Ch. 11. "Alienus": Resonances of Mad Wandering Ch. 12. Inner Wandering Ch. 13. Daemonic Dance Ch. 14. Skin: Pollution and Shame Ch. 15. Disease, Passion Pt. 4. Damage Ch. 16. Mind Damage before Tragedy Ch. 17. Homer's Damage-Chain Ch. 18. The Two Roles of Madness Ch. 19. "Haywire City" Ch. 20. Divine Double Bind Pt. 5. Madness: A Rough Tragic Grammar Ch. 21. Mad in Another World Ch. 22. Knowledge That Is Sad to Have to Know Appendix. Ate in Tragedy: The Thinning of the Word Works Cited Index

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GOR006553429
9780691033600
0691033609
Whom Gods Destroy: Elements of Greek and Tragic Madness by Ruth Padel
Ruth Padel
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Princeton University Press
1995-01-29
294
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