Article ID: CBB120973617

Memory and Imagination: From Aristotle’s Silent Speech to Euripides’ Tragic Utterances (2022)

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The aim of this study is twofold: to elaborate on Aristotle’s nexus of memory, “mental speech”, and phantasia in relation to sensation pursuing the implications of such view, i.e., the relevance of the individual’s experience and the consequent individualization of memory and its content (section 1), and to look at a selection of Euripides’ tragedies (namely, Trojan Women, Iphigenia in Aulis, and Medea) where this nexus is made explicit in the characters’ utterances and exploited for the creation of pathos (section 2). I will show that Euripides uses the tragic characters’ awareness of past happy experiences (i.e., their personal memory) to deepen the sense of loss and misery that accompany their fall into misfortune; and he does this in a nontechnical way that anticipates the Aristotelian linking of memory and imagination.

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Authors & Contributors
Repici, Luciana
Tarantino, Piero
Justin Humphreys
Korobili, Giouli
Fai, Vincenzo
Soardi, Marzia
Concepts
Philosophy
Medicine
Memory
Natural philosophy
Aristotelianism
Animals
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
Places
Europe
Hellenistic world
Mediterranean region
Greece
Alexandria (Egypt)
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