Unveiling Emotions. Vol. 2

Emotions in Greece and Rome: Texts, Images, Material Culture

Angelos Chaniotis, Pierre Ducrey

• Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9783515106481
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

The study of emotions has emerged as one of the most dynamic topics of research in Ancient History, Classics, and Archaeology. Studying a variety of sources (historiography, Greek and Latin poetry and oratory, the New Testament, inscriptions, medical authors, Greek vase-painting and sculpture, skeletal remains) and using different methodological approaches, the authors of this volume address a selection of questions related with the study of emotions in Greek and Roman culture: the representation of emotion in literature and art; the arousal of emotion through texts and images; the expression of emotion through metaphor and metonymy; the display of emotions in rituals; intellectual discourse concerning specific emotions (pride, grief, fear); emotional communities; and the importance of emotions in public life, value systems, and social relations.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• APPROACHING EMOTIONS IN GREEK AND ROMAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
• EMOTIONS AND HISTORICAL REPRESENTATION IN XENOPHON’S HELLENIKA
• EMPATHY, EMOTIONAL DISPLAY, THEATRICALITY, AND ILLUSION IN HELLENISTIC HISTORIOGRAPHY
• A SHORT HISTORY OF SHUDDERS
• REFLECTIONS ON THE DISCOURSE OF FEAR IN GREEK SOURCES
• EVOKING ANGER THROUGH PITY
• ‘NEGATIVE’ EMOTIONS AND GREEK NAMES
• IS PISTIS/FIDES EXPERIENCED AS AN EMOTION IN THE LATE ROMAN REPUBLIC, EARLY PRINCIPATE, AND EARLY CHURCH?
• MODELING ROMAN PRIDE
• GRIEF AND MOURNING IN THE ROMAN CONTEXT
• GALEN AND GRIEF
• EMOTIONALITY IN GREEK ART
• FEELING LOW
• THE IMPRINT OF EMOTIONS SURROUNDING THE DEATH OF CHILDREN IN ANTIQUITY
• AFFECTIVE POLITICS
• ABBREVIATIONS
• INDEX
• CONTRIBUTORS