Emotions through time : from Antiquity to Byzantium / edited by Douglas Cairns, Matin Hinterberger, Aglae Pizzone, and Matteo Zaccarini.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cairns, Douglas L., editor.

Hinterberger, Martin, editor.

Pizzone, Aglae M. V., 1976- editor.

Zaccarini, Matteo, editor.

Kenneth H. and Thelma F. Cisney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Emotions in Antiquity (Mohr Siebeck (Firm)) ; 1.

Emotions in Antiquity, 2750-4689 ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions--History--Sources--Congresses.

Emotions.

Emotions in literature--Congresses.

Emotions in literature.

Classical literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Classical literature.

Byzantine literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Byzantine literature.

Byzantine Empire--Civilization--Congresses.

Byzantine Empire.

Civilization.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 518 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

From Antiquity to Byzantium

Place of Publication:

Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, [2022]

Contents:

Introduction. Emotions through time? / Douglas Cairns

Emotion research in Classics / Douglas Cairns

Research on emotions in the Byzantine world / Martin Hinterberger and Aglae Pizzone

Chapter summaries / Douglas Cairns, Martin Hinterberger, and Aglae Pizzone

Part I. Philosophy and religion. Philosophy as a chain of 'poetic' emotions? Plato and beyond / Andrea Capra

Wondrous knowledge and the emotional response of Late Byzantine scholars to its acquisition / Divna Manolova

Methodological issues and issues of content, as exemplified by [oxycholía] in the Shepherd of Hermes / Petra von Geminden

Part II. Rhetorical theory and practice. Lend a sympathetic ear : rhetorical theory and emotion in Late Antique and Byzantime homiletic / Byron MacDougall

Emotions and [logos endiathetos: páthē] in John Sikeliotes' Commentary on Hermogenes' On types of style / Aglae Pizzone

Emotional communities in the eleventh century : bodily practices and emotional scripts / Floris Bernard

'Aren't you afraid that you will suffer the same? Emotive persuasion in John Chrysostom's preaching / Jan R. Stenger

Voicing and gesturing emotions : remarks on emotive performance from Antiquity to the Middle Byzantine period / Niels Gaul

Part III. Literature. Mental conflict from Homber to Eustachius / Douglas Cairns

Ekphrasis and emotional intensity in the Homilies of Philagathos of Cerami / Mircea Grațian Duluș

Tragic emotions? The Christos Paschon / Margaret Mullett

Alazoneia and Aidōs/Aischunē in Anna Komnene's and Niketas Chomiates' Histories / Martin Hinterberger

Angry warriors in the Byzantine War of Troy / Stavroula Constantinou

Part IV. Art and ritual. Visualizing and enacting emotion : the affective capacities of the Litē / Galina Fingarova

The terrible power in giving birth : images of motherhood from Antiquity to Byzantium / Viktoria Rauchle

Afterward / David Konstan.

Notes:

Papers originally presented at an international conference held September 27-29, 2017 at the A.G. Leventis Gallery in Nicosia, Cyprus, resulting from a an international and interdisciplinary research network based at the University of Edinburgh which examines the interactions between ancient and Byzantine emotion.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-505) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Kenneth H. and Thelma F. Cisney Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Emotions through time.

ISBN:

9783161613418

3161613414

OCLC:

1342547221

Publisher Number:

9783161613418