Poetic Emotions: Compassion In Sophocles
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Sophocles, Pathos, Compassion, Women of TrachisAbstract
Within the framework of studies on emotions, in this work we address compassion in Greek Antiquity. We carry out a review of central aspects that characterize compassion and establish some clarifications that guide our analysis; among other aspects, we look over the Greek terms to name this emotion, éleos and oíktos, and the meanings involved in each of them since Homer. The analysis of compassion takes Sophocles' Trachiniae and Oedipus the King as sources. In both cases, the starting point is the pathetic event or páthos, which in Poet. 1452b11-13 refers not to a subjective experience of emotion in a tragic character, but to a kind of action that would form part of the theatrical lexicon and that involves scenes of physical pain, wounds, or death. The analysis then looks at other passages that, in the course of the piece and through imitation, incorporate this emotion.
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