Ed Sanders's Envy and Jealousy in Classical Athens: A Socio-Psychological PDF

By Ed Sanders

ISBN-10: 0199897727

ISBN-13: 9780199897728

feelings differ generally among cultures, particularly of their eliciting stipulations, social acceptability, kinds of expression, and co-extent of terminology. Envy and Jealousy in Classical Athens examines the feeling, expression, and literary illustration of those significant feelings in Athens. past scholarship has basically taken a lexical procedure, concentrating on utilization of the Greek phrases phthonos and zêlos. This has worth, but additionally boundaries, for 2 purposes: the discreditable nature of phthonos renders its ascription or disclamation suspect, and there's no Classical Greek label for sexual jealousy. A complementary technique is for that reason required, one that reads the expressed values and activities of complete situations.

Building on contemporary advancements in examining emotion "scripts" in classical texts, this e-book applies to Athenian tradition and literature insights at the contexts, wakeful and unconscious motivations, subjective manifestations, and indicative behaviors of envy, jealousy, and comparable feelings. those serious insights are derived from smooth philosophical, mental, psychoanalytical, sociological, and anthropological scholarship, therefore allowing an exploration of either the categorical theorization and evaluate of envy and jealousy, and in addition the extra indirect ways that they locate expression throughout diverse genres-in specific philosophy, oratory, comedy, and tragedy. by means of applying this new technique, Ed Sanders illuminates an important and underexplored element of Classical Athenian tradition and literature.

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