Hope in Ancient Literature, History, and Art: Ancient Emotions I

Published by De Gruyter 2018

Hope in Ancient Literature, History, and Art

Ancient Emotions I

Edited by: George Kazantzidis and Dimos Spatharas

Volume 63 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110598254

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

George Kazantzidis, University of Patras, Patras, Greece; Dimos Spatharas, University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece.

Reviews

"The editors and contributors are to be congratulated in opening up this subject for further research and synthesis. We look forward to subsequent volumes on other emotions."
Jeremy Mynott in: Classics For All (08.01.2019), https://classicsforall.org.uk/book-reviews/hope-in-ancient-literature-history-and-art-ancient-emotions-i/

"[...] the book is valuable reading for anybody interested in how the ancients represented the experience of hope and the complexities of its implications."
Pia Campeggiani in: Clio Online 161/1 (2019)

"This is a well-edited (excellent indexes) and substantial volume, containing meticulously researched contributions. Nobody will be able to neglect it, and, for many issues concerning elpis/spes, both methodological and related, this will now be the first port of call."
Andrej Petrovic in: Greece and Rome 66.1 (2019), 163-178

"Nonetheless, the book is valuable reading for anybody interested in how the ancients represented the experience of hope and the complexities of its implications."
Pia Campeggiani in: H-Soz-Kult, 11.03.2019, www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-27734

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Ιntroductory: ‘Hope’, elpis, spes: Affective and Non-affective Expectancy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Elpis. ‘Hope’ in Greek Literature
“Poet of Hope”: Elpis in Pindar Alexandre Johnston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Hope and Hopelessness in Euripides Nick Fisher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Up from Tragicomedy: The Growth of Hope in Greek Comedy Niall W. Slater Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
The Politics of Hopelessness: Thucydides and Aristophanes’ Knights Natalia Tsoumpra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Elpis as Emotion and Reason (Hope and Expectation) in Fifth-century Greek Historians Donald Lateiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Part II: Spes. ‘Hope’ in Latin Literature
Deos speravi (Miles 1209): Hope and the Gods in Roman Comedy Laurel Fulkerson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
uestras spes uritis: Hope and Empire in Virgil’s Aeneid Michael Paschalis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Hope Dies Last at Tomis Andreas N. Michalopoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
‘A Historian Utterly Without Hope’: Literary Artistry and Narratives of Decline in Tacitus’ Historiae I Sophia Papaioannou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Part III: Scripts of ‘Hope’ in History, Art, and Inscriptions
Hope and Slavery Kostas Vlassopoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Velleius Paterculus, the Adoptions of 4 CE, and the Spes Race Andrew Stiles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Against Hope? The Untimely elpis of Northern Barbarians Antti Lampinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
The Face of Hope: Isolated Heads in South Italian Visual Culture Keely Elizabeth Heuer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Hope and the Sub-adult Olympia Bobou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
Elpis in the Greek Epigraphic Evidence, from Rational Expectation to Dependence from Authority Angelos Chaniotis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Index Rerum et Nominum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
Index Auctorum Antiquorum et Locorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
Epigraphic and papyrological sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Classicists, Cultural historians, Historians of emotions, Philosophers and Psychologists.
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 399
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 1
- Coloured Illustrations: 11
Keywords: Hope; expectation; emotions; antiquity

eBook

Published: July 9, 2018
ISBN: 9783110598254

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Published: July 9, 2018
ISBN: 9783110596878

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Published: July 6, 2020
ISBN: 9783110710137