Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
1 Choral Emotions and Collective Passions: Questions and Approaches, Old and New 1
1 Introduction 1
2 Preliminaries: Assumptions and Questions 2
3 Aristotle and the (Tragic) Emotions: Uses and Limitations 6
4 Collectively Dancing the Emotions 19
4.1 The Tragic Chorus 19
4.2 Rethinking Choral Action(s) 30
4.3 On Methodology 32
5 Collective Emotion Outside the Theater: Thucydides' History 34
6 Civilizing the Passions? Theorizing Emotion in Action 37
2 Contextualizing Choral Emotions: Thucydides and Collective Psychology 44
1 Preliminaries: 'Feeling Together' in Thucydides 44
2 Collective Emotion within the City-State 49
2.1 Ideal Emotion in Athenian Democracy: the Citizen-Lover 49
2.2 Unideal Emotions within the State: The Plague 52
2.3 Pericles and the Emotions of the Demos: Phobos, Orgê, and Gnômê 56
2.4 The Emotions of Stasis: The Oligarchic Coup in Athens 62
2.5 The Quintessential Emotions of Stasis: Corcyra 64
2.6 Reason, Passion, and Human Nature 68
3 Collective Emotion and Interstate Relations 72
3.1 The Case of Mytilene 73
3.2 The Sicilian Expedition 84
4 Closing Thoughts: Collective Emotion-Potential and Shortcomings 91
3 Emotion in Aeschylus' Active Choruses 94
1 Defining Active Choruses 94
2 Aeschylus, Eumenides 98
3 Aeschylus, Supplices 120
4 Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 147
4 Enacting Choral Emotion: Sophocles and Euripides 179
1 Defining Enactment 179
2 Sophocles, Philoctetes 180
3 Euripides, Bacchae 213
Coda: The Value(s) of Collective Emotion in Action 239
Bibliography 249
Index of Subjects 269
Index of Sources 281
