Kinesis : the ancient depiction of gesture, motion, and emotion : essays for Donald Lateiner / Christina A. Clark, Edith Foster, and Judith P. Hallett, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lateiner, Donald.

Clark, Christina A.

Foster, Edith (Edith Marie)

Hallett, Judith P., 1944-

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Latin literature--History and criticism.

Latin literature.

Motion in literature.

Gesture in literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2015]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Donald Lateiner, in his groundbreaking work The Sardonic Smile, presented the first thorough study of nonverbal behavior in Homeric epics, drawing a significant distinction between ancient and modern gesture and demonstrating the intrinsic relevance of this "silent language" to psychological, social, and anthropological studies of the ancient world. Using Lateiner's work as a touchstone, the scholars in Kinesis analyze the depiction of emotions, gestures, and other nonverbal cues in ancient Greek and Roman texts and consider the precise language used to depict them. Individual contributors examine genres ranging from historiography and epic to tragedy, philosophy, and vase decoration. They explore evidence as disparate as Pliny's depiction of animal emotions, Plato's presentation of Aristophanes' hiccups, and Thucydides' use of verb tenses. Sophocles' deployment of silence is considered, as are Lucan's depiction of death and the speaking objects of the medieval Alexander Romance. This collection will be valuable to scholars studying Greek and Roman society and literature, as well as to those who study the imitation of ancient literature in later societies. Jargon is avoided and all passages in ancient languages are translated, making this volume accessible to advanced undergraduates. Contributors in addition to the volume editors include Jeffrey Rusten, Rosaria Vignolo Munson, Hans-Peter Stahl, Carolyn Dewald, Rachel Kitzinger, Deborah Boedeker, Daniel P. Tompkins, John Marincola, Carolin Hahnemann, Ellen Finkelpearl, Hanna M. Roisman, Eliot Wirshbo, James V. Morrison, Bruce Heiden, Daniel B. Levine, and Brad L. Cook.

Contents:

Part 1 Ancient Greek Historiography

Chapter 1 Kinesis in the Preface to Thucydides / Jeffrey Rusten Rusten, Jeffrey 27

Chapter 2 Natural Upheavals in Thucydides (and Herodotus) / Rosaria Vignolo Munson Munson, Rosaria Vignolo 41

Chapter 3 Action and Consequences: The Historical Present Tense in the Opening Narrative of Book 8 of Thucydides / Edith Foster Foster, Edith 60

Chapter 4 Herodotus and Thucydides on Not Learning from Mistakes / Hans-Peter Stahl Stahl, Hans-Peter 74

Chapter 5 Speaking Silences in Herodotus and Sophocles / Carolyn Dewald Dewald, Carolyn, Rachel Kitzinger Kitzinger, Rachel 86

Chapter 6 Two Tales of Spartan Envoys / Deborah Boedeker Boedeker, Deborah 103

Chapter 7 Gorgias in the Real World: Hermocrates on Interstate Stasis and the Defense of Sicily / Daniel P. Tompkins Tompkins, Daniel P. 116

Chapter 8 Manly Matters: Gender, Emotion, and the Writing of History / John Marincola Marincola, John 127

Part 2 Emotion and Nonverbal Behavior

Chapter 9 Masculinity, Nonverbal Behavior, and Pompey's Death in Lucan's Bellum Ciuile / Christina A. Clark Clark, Christina A. 143

Chapter 10 Nonverbal Behavior in Seneca's Phaedra / Carolin Hahnemann Hahnemann, Carolin 160

Chapter 11 Elephant Tears: Animal Emotion in Pliny and Aelian / Ellen Finkelpearl Finkelpearl, Ellen 173

Chapter 12 Lucian's Courtesans: Vulnerable Women in a Difficult Occupation / Hanna M. Roisman Roisman, Hanna M. 188

Chapter 13 Omnia Movet Amor: Love and Resistance, Art and Movement, in Ovid's Daphne and Apollo Episode (Metamorphoses 1.452-367) / Judith P. Hallett Hallett, Judith P. 207

Chapter 14 Verbal Behavior in the Iliad / Eliot Wirshbo Wirshbo, Eliot 219

Chapter 15 Shipwreck Narratives in Homer's Odyssey and Coetzee's Foe / James V. Morrison Morrison, James V. 235

Chapter 16 Phrontisterion 2.0: Aristophanes' Clouds and Plato's Critique of Pedagogies in the Symposium / Bruce Heiden Heiden, Bruce 248

Chapter 17 Hephaestus' Winged Shoes and the Birth of Athena / Daniel B. Levine Levine, Daniel B. 262

Chapter 18 From Papyrus to Peppercorns: The Tradition of Significant Objects in the Alexander Romance / Brad L. Cook Cook, Brad L. 281.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-309) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472119592

9780472121168

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.7684934

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