Reading Roman emotions : visual and textual interpretations / edited by Hedvig von Ehrenheim & Marina Prusac-Lindhagen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ehrenheim, Hedvig von, editor.

Prusac-Lindhagen, Marina, editor.

Series:

Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom. 4o ; 64.

Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Rom. 4o, 0081-993X ; 64

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Roman.

Ethnopsychology--Rome.

Ethnopsychology.

Emotions--Social aspects.

Emotions.

Romans.

Emotions in art.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stockholm : Svenska Institutet i Rom, 2020.

Summary:

"This volume is a contribution to the study of culturally bound emotions and emotional response in ancient Rome. Approaches to the study of ancient emotions and how they were culturally specific, appreciated and understood have recently come to the centre of attention, but not so much in the visual as in the literary culture. When socially and affectively contextualized, the material culture of ancient Rome is a potential goldmine of information with regard to emotions. The chapters in the present volume take the reader on a tour through various cases that demonstrate how emotions were expressed through the arts. The tour starts with a fresh view of how emotion history can be used to recover feelings from the visual culture of the past. Visual culture includes animated performances, and the reader is invited to revel in Roman drama, oratory, and love poetry. Words are often clear, but can images reveal laughter and joy, sadness, grief and mourning, virtue and anger? This volume argues that yes, they can, and through the study of emotions it is also possible to obtain a deeper understanding of the Romans and their social and cultural codes"--Dust jacket.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789170421860

9170421862

OCLC:

1150796454

Publisher Number:

9789170421860