Emotions in the Classical World
Methods, Approaches, and Directions
- 274 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- THE EMOTION OF DISGUST, PROVOKED AND EXPRESSED IN EARLIER GREEK LITERATURE
- HORROR, PITY, AND THE VISUAL IN ANCIENT GREEK AESTHETICS
- GRIEF: THE POWER AND SHORTCOMINGS OF GREEK TRAGIC CONSOLATION
- THE POETICS OF EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION: SOME PROBLEMS OF ANCIENT THEORY
- THE PSEUDO-ARISTOTELIAN PROBLEMS ON SYMPATHY
- THE LIFE OF STATUES: EMOTION AND AGENCY
- TOUCHING BEHAVIOUR: PROXEMICS IN ROMAN ART
- EMOTIONS AS A HISTORIOGRAPHICAL DILEMMA
- THE PERFORMANCE OF GRIEF: CICERO, STOICISM, AND THE PUBLIC EYE
- THE VAGARIES OF HOPE IN VERGIL AND OVID
- REASON VS. EMOTION IN SENECA
- SOME THOUGHTS ON THE ANGER OF SENECA’S MEDEA
- INDEX LOCORUM