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Author:   Emma M. Griffiths (Lecturer in Classics, Lecturer in Classics, University of Manchester)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.001kg
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9780198826071

ISBN 10:   0198826079
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   20 February 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Contexts 1.1: Introduction 1.1.1: Revisiting Aristotle 1.1.2: Uncertainty Principles 1.2: Definitions 1.2.1: Terminology 1.2.2: Age Categories 1.3: The Scholarly Tradition 1.3.1: Pathetic Stereotypes 1.4: The 'Universal' or 'Natural' Child 1.5: Framing Pathos and Pity 1.6: Embodiment 2: Staging Issues 2.1: The Basic Problem 2.2: Re-Assessing the Evidence 2.3: Basic Blocking Arrangements 2.3.1: Sophokles' Aias 2.3.2: Sophokles' Oidipous Tyrannos 2.3.3: Euripides' Andromakhe 2.3.4: Euripides' Hekabe 2.3.5: Euripides' Herakleidai 2.3.6: Euripides' Herakles 2.3.7: Euripides' Medeia 2.3.8: Euripides' Hiketides 2.3.9: Euripides' Troades 2.3.10: Euripides' Alkestis 2.4: The Manner of Movement 2.5: Embodied Identity 2.6: Children as (Masked) Participants 2.7: Dolls and Objects 2.8: Singing and Speaking 2.9: Language 2.10: Speech in Alkestis 2.11: Naming and Anonymity 2.11.1: Named Figures 2.11.2: Anonymous Figures 3: Potential 3.1: The Next Steps 3.2: Temporal Palimpsests 3.3: Socio-Historical Potential 3.4: Theatrical Potential 3.5: Philosophical Potential 3.6: Imagery 3.7: Character, Quantum Physics, and Ghosts 4: Reframing Pathos 4.1: An Integrated Approach 4.2: Formulating Pathos 4.3: Children and Emotion 4.4: Biologically Determined Responses of Protection 4.5: The Construction of Pity 4.6: Merit and Suffering 4.7: Identification: Parents and Philia 4.8: Pity and Philia 4.9: Supplication 4.10: Pity and the Law 4.11: Pathos and Potential Combined 5: Plays and Playwrights 5.1: Exploring the Ideas 5.2: Aiskhylos 5.3: Sophokles 5.4: Euripides 6: Conclusions and Future Directions 6.1: The Value of Potential 6.2: Adolescence 6.3: Politics 6.4: Old Age and Gender 6.5: Children in Greek Literature 6.6: Comedy, Satyr Play, and Ritual 6.7: Final Thoughts Appendix: Being an Orphan Endmatter Bibliography Index

Reviews

This is a brave book with novel perspectives...the book deserves a home in specialist libraries. * Stuart Lyons, Classics for All *

Griffiths' timely study will hopefully open up future areas of study in the representation of children in classical literature * Mairead McAuley, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * Griffiths' book is a stimulating examination of the multiple functions of child figures in fifth-century tragedy, framed through the two terms of her title, pathos and potential. * Mairead McAuley, University College London * This is a brave book with novel perspectives...the book deserves a home in specialist libraries. * Stuart Lyons, Classics for All *

It is an interesting and stimulating work which undoubtedly allows us to enrich our way of considering the characters of children in tragedy and offers us a better consideration of the stakes. * Rocco Marseglia, translated from GNOMON * Griffiths' timely study will hopefully open up future areas of study in the representation of children in classical literature * Mairead McAuley, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * Griffiths' book is a stimulating examination of the multiple functions of child figures in fifth-century tragedy, framed through the two terms of her title, pathos and potential. * Mairéad McAuley, University College London * This is a brave book with novel perspectives...the book deserves a home in specialist libraries. * Stuart Lyons, Classics for All *

Author Information

Emma M. Griffiths received her MA from Oxford and her PhD from the University of Bristol. She is a lecturer in Greek at the University of Manchester, where her research interests focus on ancient Greek drama and childhood.

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