Cairns / Nelis Emotions in the Classical World

Methods, Approaches, and Directions
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-515-11629-9
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Deutsch, Englisch, Band 59, 271 Seiten, E-Book-Text

Reihe: Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien.

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cairns, Douglas

Nelis, Damien P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Cairns, Douglas
Douglas Cairns, Professor of Classics at the University of Edinburgh, School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Research interests: Greek society and ethics, especially the emotions.