| Madness in Ancient Literature Contributor(s): O'Brien, Moore Ainsworth (Author) |
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ISBN: 0766179117 ISBN-13: 9780766179110 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2003 Annotation: 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical - History | Ancient - General - Religion | Ancient |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 8.28" W x 11.1" (1.19 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
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