Comparative mythology corpus

Emotional Contagion Through Represented Suffering

1 appearances across 1 tradition groups.

Evidence

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TraditionSourcePassageConfidenceEvidenceRecord
Greek The Republic BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII. / BOOK IX. / BOOK X.; lines 23819-23921 medium Listeners to Homer or tragedians are described as taking pleasure in sympathy when a pitiful hero laments, weeps, and strikes his breast. record