Envy and jealousy in classical Athens : a socio-psychological approach / Ed Sanders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sanders, Ed, 1973-

Series:

Emotions of the Past

Emotions of the past

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Emotions in literature.

Envy in literature.

Jealousy in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The author applies to Athenian culture and literature insights on the contexts, conscious and subconscious motivations, subjective manifestations, and indicative behaviours of envy, jealousy, and related emotions, derived from modern (post-1950) philosophical, psychological, psychoanalytical, sociological, and anthropological scholarship. This enables an exploration of both the explicit theorization and evaluation of envy and jealousy in ancient Greek texts, and also the more oblique ways in which they find expression across a variety of genres - in particular philosophy, oratory, comedy and tragedy.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Notes on Text""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Envy, Jealousy, and Related Emotions�Modern Theories""; ""3. The Vocabulary of Greek Envy and Jealousy""; ""4. Aristotle on Phthonos""; ""5. Phthonos in the Attic Oratorical Corpus""; ""6. Audience Phthonos in Old Comedy""; ""7. Onstage Phthonos in Old Comedy and Tragedy""; ""8. Sexual Jealousy in Classical Athens""; ""Envoi""; ""Bibliography""; ""INDEX LOCORUM""; ""GENERAL INDEX""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-935697-1

0-19-989773-5

OCLC:

868068443