Dana Munteanu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Greek and Latin at Ohio State University. She has published articles on Aristotle, Greek drama and the reception of classics in modern literature and in opera, as well as editing a forthcoming collection of essays on emotion, gender and genre in antiquity. Her future research projects include a monograph on 'staged death' in Greek drama and an interdisciplinary project on the ethics of aesthetics.
Introduction
Part I. Theoretical Views about Pity and Fear as Aesthetic Emotions: 1. Drama and the emotions: an Indo-European connection?
2. Gorgias: a strange trio, the poetic emotions
3. Plato: from reality to tragedy and back
4. Aristotle: the first 'theorist' of the aesthetic emotions
Part II. Pity and Fear within Tragedies: 5. An introduction
6. Aeschylus: Persians
7. Prometheus Bound
8. Sophocles: Ajax
9. Euripides: Orestes
Appendix: catharsis and the emotions in the definition of tragedy in the Poetics.
