{"product_id":"whom-gods-destroy-elements-of-greek-tragic-madness-paper","title":"Whom Gods Destroy – Elements of Greek \u0026 Tragic Madness (Paper)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Padel, Ruth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition:\u003c\/b\u003e Reprint\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 294\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 01-04-1996\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691025889\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eItem Condition:\u003c\/b\u003e UsedVeryGood\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54372512792903,"sku":"2026-07-16-02","price":24.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0293\/7474\/2572\/files\/715Nf_pkoOL.jpg?v=1784375111","url":"https:\/\/www.pigeonhousebooks.com\/products\/whom-gods-destroy-elements-of-greek-tragic-madness-paper","provider":"Pigeonhouse Books, Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}