On October 18th from 4-5:30 p.m. in HSSB 4020, UC Berkeley classics professor Mario Telò will show how the archive feelings permeating two of Euripides’ most famous and controversial plays express an emancipatory negativity, which provides an explanation for our never-ending emotional investment in the tragic experience. He will explore explore the idea that the pleasure that draws audiences and readers to tragedy today, as it did in antiquity, may reside in anti-catharsis (the opposite of affective equilibrium).