{"title":"Familial Pity in Greek Tragedy","authors":"Teresa Danze","doi":"10.1353/tcj.2022.0002","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this article we analyze explicit expressions of pity among family members within Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis and Sophocles' Electra with particular attention to the closeness of individuals involved and the merit for misfortune, two categories informed by Aristotle's definition of pity in the Rhetoric. Instances within these plays suggest that a type of estrangement exists between pitier and pitied while the question of whether one's misfortune is merited can be ignored in favor of assumed obligations to kin. This interpretation sheds light on the instance of pity found between father and son in Aeschylus' Persians.","PeriodicalId":35668,"journal":{"name":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"CLASSICAL JOURNAL","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2022.0002","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"CLASSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:In this article we analyze explicit expressions of pity among family members within Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis and Sophocles' Electra with particular attention to the closeness of individuals involved and the merit for misfortune, two categories informed by Aristotle's definition of pity in the Rhetoric. Instances within these plays suggest that a type of estrangement exists between pitier and pitied while the question of whether one's misfortune is merited can be ignored in favor of assumed obligations to kin. This interpretation sheds light on the instance of pity found between father and son in Aeschylus' Persians.
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The Classical Journal (ISSN 0009–8353) is published by the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS), the largest regional classics association in the United States and Canada, and is now over a century old. All members of CAMWS receive the journal as a benefit of membership; non-member and library subscriptions are also available. CJ appears four times a year (October–November, December–January, February–March, April–May); each issue consists of about 100 pages.
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