Emotions in the Classical World (eBook)

Methods, Approaches, and Directions

Douglas Cairns, Damien P. Nelis (Herausgeber)

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2017
271 Seiten
Franz Steiner Verlag
978-3-515-11629-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The study of ancient emotion has become a substantial and thriving sub-discipline in the fields of Classics and Ancient History, enabling Classicists to make a significant contribution to the wider upsurge in interest in the emotions that has taken place across a range of scholarly disciplines in recent years. In the belief that now is the time to take stock of what has been achieved so far and to attempt to give a sense of research opportunities to come, this e-book assembles an international team of experts, including a number of those who have already made essential contributions to the study of ancient emotion, to offer an authoritative and representative selection of contemporary methods and approaches. With a chronological range from Homer to Seneca, this e-book deals with disgust, hope, horror, pity, grief, sympathy, and anger in a variety of contexts, including the poetics of emotional expression, philosophical theories of emotion, the role of emotion in historiography, intertextuality and the emotions, and the role of art and material culture in the representation of ancient affectivity.

Inhalt

TABLE OF CONTENTS 6
INTRODUCTION 8
THE EMOTION OF DISGUST, PROVOKED AND EXPRESSED IN EARLIER GREEK LITERATURE 32
HORROR, PITY, AND THE VISUAL IN ANCIENT GREEK AESTHETICS 54
GRIEF: THE POWER AND SHORTCOMINGS OF GREEK TRAGIC CONSOLATION 80
THE POETICS OF EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION: SOME PROBLEMS OF ANCIENT THEORY 106
THE PSEUDO-ARISTOTELIAN PROBLEMS ON SYMPATHY 126
THE LIFE OF STATUES: EMOTION AND AGENCY 144
TOUCHING BEHAVIOUR: PROXEMICS IN ROMAN ART 160
EMOTIONS AS A HISTORIOGRAPHICAL DILEMMA 178
THE PERFORMANCE OF GRIEF: CICERO, STOICISM, AND THE PUBLIC EYE 196
THE VAGARIES OF HOPE IN VERGIL AND OVID 208
REASON VS. EMOTION IN SENECA 232
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE ANGER OF SENECA’S MEDEA 246
INDEX LOCORUM 258

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.2.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien
• Zusatzinfo: 10 schw.-w. Abb.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: Altertum • Ancient Emotion • Ancient history • Antike • Classical World • classics
• ISBN-10: 3-515-11629-X / 351511629X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-515-11629-9 / 9783515116299