Hope, joy, and affection in the classical world [electronic resource] / edited by Ruth R. Caston and Robert A. Kaster.
Caston, Ruth Rothaus, author.; Kaster, Robert A., author.
2016
DF78 .H72 2016eb
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Title
Hope, joy, and affection in the classical world [electronic resource] / edited by Ruth R. Caston and Robert A. Kaster.
ISBN
9780190603786 (electronic book)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190278298
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
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English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 282 pages).
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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190278298 doi
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DF78 .H72 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
880.9353
Summary
Scholarship on the emotions in classical antiquity has focused almost entirely on negative emotions, but that is not because the Greeks and Romans had little to say about positive emotions. The chapters in this collection show that there are representations of positive emotions - considered here under the headings of 'hope', 'joy', and 'affection' - extending from archaic Greek poetry, through the philosophical schools of the Epicureans and Stoics, to the Christianity of Augustine, and while many of the literary representations give expression to positive emotion but also describe its loss, the philosophers offer a more optimistic assessment of the possibilities of attaining joy or contentment in this life.
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Scholarship on the emotions in classical antiquity has focused almost entirely on negative emotions, but that is not because the Greeks and Romans had little to say about positive emotions. The chapters in this collection show that there are representations of positive emotions - considered here under the headings of 'hope', 'joy', and 'affection' - extending from archaic Greek poetry, through the philosophical schools of the Epicureans and Stoics, to the Christianity of Augustine, and while many of the literary representations give expression to positive emotion but also describe its loss, the philosophers offer a more optimistic assessment of the possibilities of attaining joy or contentment in this life.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Caston, Ruth Rothaus, author.
Kaster, Robert A., author.
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Emotions of the past.
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Introduction / Ruth R. Caston and Robert A. Kaster
I. Hope
Douglas Cairns, Metaphors for hope in archaic and classical Greek poetry
Damien Nelis, Emotion in Vergil's Georgics : farming and the politics of hope
Laurel Fulkerson, "Torn between hope and despair" : narrative foreshadowing and suspense in the Greek novel
II. Joy and happiness
Ruth R. Caston, The irrepressibility of joy in Roman comedy
Michael C.J. Putnam, Horatius Felix
Margaret Graver, Anatomies of joy : Seneca and the Gaudium tradition
Christopher Gill, Positive emotions in stoicism : are they enough?
III. Fellow-feeling and kindness
Ed Sanders, Generating goodwill and friendliness in Attic forensic oratory
David Armstrong, Utility and affection in Epicurean friendship : Philodemus on the Gods 3, On property management, and Horace, Sermones 2.6
Gillian Clark, Caritas : Augustine on love and fellow-feeling
Martha Nussbaum, "If you could see this heart" : Mozart's mercy.

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