Feeling Vulnerable, but Not Too Vulnerable
Pity in Sophocles' Oedipus Coloneus, Ajax and Philoctetes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9382302 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Norman Sandridge (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 433-448 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Classical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8353 • E-ISSN: 2327-5812 |
| Publisher | Classical Association of the Middle West and South (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tcj.2008.0009 |
| OpenAlex | W22024839 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Working from a critique of Aristotle's treatment of pity in the Ars Rhetorica, this article identifies a type of non-merit-based, non-familial, self-regarding pity in three plays of Sophocles that is both remarkably intense and uncommon in Greek literature and history. This pity implies that the protagonists (or "heroes") in these plays are neither beasts nor greater than other, more civilized characters, but human
Art · Epistemology · Feeling · Literature · Pity · Classical Antiquity Studies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2022 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |