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Whom Gods Destroy
Whom Gods Destroy
Author: Ruth Padel
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 madness as violent and damaging. Drawing on her deep knowledge of anthropology, psychoanalysis, Shak...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691025889
ISBN-10: 0691025886
Publication Date: 12/11/1995
Pages: 296
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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