Pity and Power in Ancient Athens

Abstract

1. The nature of pity Rachel Hall Sternberg 2. Pity and politics David Konstan 3. The pitiers and the pitied in Herodotus and Thucydides Donald Lateiner 4. A generous city: pity in Athenian oratory and tragedy 5. Athenian tragedy: an education in pity James F. Johnson and Douglas C. Clapp 6. Engendering the tragic Theates: pity, power, and spectacle in Sophocles' Trachiniae Thomas M. Falkner 7. Pity in classical Athenian vase painting John H. Oakley 8. The civic art of pity Aileen Ajootian 9. A crying shame: pitying the sick in the Hippocratic corpus and Greek tragedy Jennifer Clarke Kosak 10. Pity in Plutarch Christopher Pelling.