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

✍ Scribed by Angelos Chaniotis, Pierre Ducrey (eds.)

• Publisher: Fanz Steiner Verlag
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 393
• Series: Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien (HABES), 55
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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