Euripides’ Use of Psychological Terminology

249 Pages·2000·10.326 MB·English

by  Shirley D. Sullivan

Euripides' Use of Psychological Terminology
Building on her previous works on Sophocles and Aeschylus, Shirley Darcus
Sullivan takes an in-depth look at Euripides' use of psychological terms -
phren, nous, prapides, thumos, kardia, hear, and psyche - and compares his
usage to that of both earlier and contemporary poets, notably Aeschylus and
Sophocles.
Sullivan discusses each term separately, gathering them from Euripides'
seventeen extant tragedies and from fragments of other plays. She begins
with a broad look at how both earlier and contemporary poets used the vari-
ous terms, moving on to a detailed discussion of Euripides' own usage, from
his most often used phren to his new use of psyche.
Euripides' Use of Psychological Terminology will be of interest to schol-
ars of classics, in particular those in fifth-century Greek classics, as well as
to those interested in psychology and its presentation in ancient literature.
SHIRLEY DARCUS SULLIVAN is professor of classics at the University of Brit-
ish Columbia.
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Euripides' Use
of Psychological
Terminology
SHIRLEY DARCUS SULLIVAN
McGill-Queen's University Press
Montreal & Kingston • London • Ithaca
© McGill-Queen's University Press 2000
ISBN 0-7735-2051-1
Legal deposit second quarter 2000
Bibliotheque nationale du Quebec
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support of the Government of Canada through the Book
Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) for its
activities. We also acknowledge the support of the Canada
Council for the Arts for our publishing program.
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Sullivan, Shirley Darcus, 1945-
Euripides' use of psychological terminology
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7735-2051-1
I. Euripides - Language. 2. Psychology in literature.
I. Title.
PA3978.s84 2000 882'.oi 099-901380-7
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For Mary
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Contents
Tables ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
1 Introduction 3
2 Phren in the Tragedies: Part One 10
3 Phren in the Tragedies: Part Two 31
4 Nous and Prapides in the Tragedies 45
5 Thumos in the Tragedies 59
6 Kardia and Kear in the Tragedies 71
7 Psyche: Traditional Uses 83
8 Psyche: Euripidean Uses 94
9 Conclusion 113
APPENDICES
A An Overview of the Psychic Terms 123
B Psychic Terms in Each Tragedy 155
C Adjectives and Participles with Psychic Terms 178
viii Contents
D Cognate Verbs, Adverbs, Adjectives, and Nouns 186
E Hepar and Splanchna 196
Notes 199
Selected Bibliography 219
Index of Passages Discussed 229
General Index 233
Tables
3.1 Phren: New Adjectives 37-8
4.1 Nous: Traditional and Contemporary Contexts 53
4.2 Nous in Wider Contexts 53
5.1 Thumos: Traditional and Contemporary Contexts 67
5.2 Thumos in Wider Contexts 67
6.1 Kardia: Traditional and Contemporary Contexts 79
6.2 Kardia in Wider Contexts 79
8.1 New Adjectives and Participles with Psyche 109
9.1 Phren, Nous, Thumos, Psyche 114-15
9.2 Kardia, Kear, and Prapides 116