Hope in ancient literature, history, and art : Ancient Emotions I / George Kazantzidis, Dimos Spatharas.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Kazantzidis, George, editor.

Spatharas, Dēmos G., editor.

Conference Name:

Ancient Emotions Conference (1st : 2015 : Rethymnon, Greece)

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; Volume 63.

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; 63

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Hope in literature.

Hope in art.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 399 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Although ancient hope has attracted much scholarly attention in the past, this is the first book-length discussion of the topic. The introduction offers a systematic discussion of the semantics of Greek elpis and Latin spes and addresses the difficult question of whether hope -ancient and modern- is an emotion. On the other hand, the 16 contributions deal with specific aspects of hope in Greek and Latin literature, history and art, including Pindar's poetry, Greek tragedy, Thucydides, Virgil's epic and Tacitus' Historiae. The volume also explores from a historical perspective the hopes of slaves in antiquity, the importance of hope for the enhancement of stereotypes about the barbarians, and the depiction of hope in visual culture, providing thereby a useful tool not only for classicist but also for philosophers, cultural historians and political scientists.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Ιntroductory: 'Hope', elpis, spes: Affective and Non-affective Expectancy

Part I: Elpis. 'Hope' in Greek Literature

"Poet of Hope": Elpis in Pindar / Johnston, Alexandre

Hope and Hopelessness in Euripides / Fisher, Nick

Up from Tragicomedy: The Growth of Hope in Greek Comedy / Slater, Niall W.

The Politics of Hopelessness: Thucydides and Aristophanes' Knights / Tsoumpra, Natalia

Elpis as Emotion and Reason (Hope and Expectation) in Fifth-century Greek Historians / Lateiner, Donald

Part II: Spes. 'Hope' in Latin Literature

Deos speravi (Miles 1209): Hope and the Gods in Roman Comedy / Fulkerson, Laurel

uestras spes uritis: Hope and Empire in Virgil's Aeneid / Paschalis, Michael

Hope Dies Last at Tomis / Michalopoulos, Andreas N.

'A Historian Utterly Without Hope': Literary Artistry and Narratives of Decline in Tacitus' Historiae I / Papaioannou, Sophia

Part III: Scripts of 'Hope' in History, Art, and Inscriptions

Hope and Slavery / Vlassopoulos, Kostas

Velleius Paterculus, the Adoptions of 4 CE, and the Spes Race / Stiles, Andrew

Against Hope? The Untimely elpis of Northern Barbarians / Lampinen, Antti

The Face of Hope: Isolated Heads in South Italian Visual Culture / Heuer, Keely Elizabeth

Hope and the Sub-adult / Bobou, Olympia

Elpis in the Greek Epigraphic Evidence, from Rational Expectation to Dependence from Authority / Chaniotis, Angelos

List of Contributors

Index Rerum et Nominum

Index Auctorum Antiquorum et Locorum

Epigraphic and papyrological sources

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jul 2018)

ISBN:

9783110597103

3110597101

9783110598254

3110598256

OCLC:

1046623143