Whom Gods Destroy: Elements of Greek and Tragic Madness by Ruth Padel

Whom Gods Destroy: Elements of Greek and Tragic Madness

Ruth Padel

276 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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