Memory and Emotions in Antiquity : Ancient Emotions IV / edited by George Kazantzidis and Dimos Spatharas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kazantzidis, George, editor.

Spatharas, Dēmos G., editor.

Series:

Trends in classics. ; Volume 158.

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Series ; Volume 158

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions in literature.

Literature, Ancient--History and criticism.

Literature, Ancient.

Memory in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2024]

Summary:

The contributions of this volume discuss the interfaces between memory and emotions in ancient literature, social life, and philosophy. They explore the ways in which memories intersect with emotions in the epics of Homer and Virgil, the importance of memory for the emotions scripts employed by public speakers to enhance the persuasiveness of their arguments, and 'cultural memory' in Philostratus' Heroicus. Contributions that focus on aspects of ancient societies and politics investigate memory and emotions in the Bacchic-Orphic gold leaves, the importance of memories on inscriptions commemorating private and public emotions, and the ways in which emotive memories enhanced the monumentalizing project of Herodes Atticus in Greece. The essays emphasizing philosophical approaches to memory and emotions discuss Aristotle's biological treatises and Augustine's deployment of nostalgia and autobiographical narrative in the wider frame of his didactic programme. Modern approaches to embodied cognition are also employed to shed light on how memories attached to our bodily experiences can enhance the interpretation of Roman literature.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Contents

List of Figures

Introduction

Emotions, Memory, and the Wrath of Achilles: Observations from Cognitive Psychology

The Tension between Memory and Emotion in Homer's Audience

The Emotional Memories of Internal Narrators: Homer, Virgil, Ovid

Religious Emotions and Mnemonic Discourses: The Gold Tablets of Memory

Remembering Emotions

Exploitation of (Alleged) Memories in Demosthenes and Aeschines

Aristotle on Memory and Emotion in Human and Non-human Animals

Emotive Memory Traces in Roman Literature

Herodes Atticus, Material Memories, and the Expression and Reception of Grief

Memory and Emotion in Philostratus' Heroicus

Nostalgia and Reading in Augustine's Confessions

List of Contributors

Index Locorum

Index Rerum.

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ISBN:

9783111345246

3111345246