Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond

Studies in Honour of Irene de Jong
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50604-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 451, 808 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 15068 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

Emotions are at the core of much ancient literature, from Achilles’ heartfelt anger in Homer’s Iliad to the pangs of love of Virgil’s Dido. This volume applies a narratological approach to emotions in a wide range of texts and genres. It seeks to analyze ways in which emotions such as anger, fear, pity, joy, love and sadness are portrayed. Furthermore, using recent insights from affective narratology, it studies ways in which ancient narratives evoke emotions in their readers. The volume is dedicated to Irene de Jong for her groundbreaking research into the narratology of ancient literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

de Bakker, Mathieu P.

van den Berg, Baukje

Klooster, Jacqueline

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: The Narratology of Emotions in Ancient Literature

Mathieu de Bakker, Baukje van den Berg and Jacqueline Klooster

Part 1 Archaic Epic

1 A Narratology of the Emotions: Method, Temporality, and Anger in Homer’s Iliad

Ahuvia Kahane

2 Narrative and Emotion in the Iliad: Andromache and Helen

Angus Bowie

3 Fear and Loathing at the Xanthus

Evert van Emde Boas

4 Metaleptic Apostrophe in Homer: Emotion and Immersion

Rutger Allan

5 In Mortal Danger: The Emotions of Two Fighters in the Iliad

Marina Coray and Martha Krieter

6 Poseidon’s Anger in the Odyssey

Sebastiaan van der Mije

7 Emotions and Politeness in Homer’s Odyssey

Robert Kirstein

8 Emotionally Reunited: Laertes and Odysseus in Odyssey 24

Bruno Currie

9 Love and Anger: Emotions in Hesiod

Hugo Koning

Part 2 Archaic Epic and Beyond

10 The Text as Labyrinth

Françoise Létoublon

11 Narrating Pity in Greek Epic, Lyric, Tragedy, and Beyond

Patrick Finglass

12 Deixis in Teichoscopy as a Marker of Emotional Urgency

Albert Rijksbaron

13 Exercises in Anger Management: From Achilles to Arginusae

Christopher Pelling

14 Sunt lacrimae rerum: Emotions at the Deaths of Troilus, Priam, and Astyanax in Athenian Black-Figure Vase-Painting

Geralda Jurriaans-Helle

15 What the Greeks Left Us: Perspectivation as a Tool in the Pursuit of (Emotional) Knowledge

Willie van Peer

Part 3 Early Lyric, Tragedy, and Biblical Poetry

16 Passion versus Performance in Sappho Fragments 1 and 31

André Lardinois

17 Prometheus Bound as ‘Epic’ Tragedy and Its Narratology of Emotion

Anton Bierl

18 Self-Description of Emotions in Ancient Greek Drama: A First Exploration

Gerry Wakker

19 Retelling the War of Troy: Tragedy, Emotions, and Catharsis

Sofia Frade

20 Body and Speech as the Site of Emotions in Biblical Narrative

Ilse Müllner

Part 4 Greek Prose of the Classical Period

21 Herodotean Emotions: Some Aspects

Richard Rutherford

22 Herodotus, Historian of Emotions

Mathieu de Bakker

23 Emotions in Thucydides: Revisiting the Final Battle in Syracuse Harbour

Tim Rood

24 The Dark Side of a Narrative: The Power of Emotions, Digressions and Historical Causes in Hellenica Oxyrhynchia

Antonis Tsakmakis

25 Cyrus’ Tears: An Essay in Affective Narratology and Socratic History

Luuk Huitink

26 The Joys and Sorrows of the Argument: Emotions and Emotional Involvement in Plato’s Narratives of Philosophical Reasoning

Margalit Finkelberg

27 The Arousal of Interest in Plato’s Protagoras and Gorgias

Michael Lloyd

28 Socratic Emotions

Kathryn A. Morgan

Part 5 Hellenistic Literature

29 Heracles’ Emotions in Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica

Silvio Bär

30 Away with ‘Angry Young Men’! Intertextuality as a Narratological Tool in the Quarrel Episodes in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius

Annette Harder

31 Theocritus and the Poetics of Love

Jacqueline Klooster

32 Characters, Emotions, and Enargeia in Second Maccabees

Jan Willem van Henten

Part 6 Latin Literature

33 Common Ground and the Presentation of Emotions: Fright and Horror in Livy’s Historiography

Lidewij van Gils and Caroline Kroon

34 Dramatic Narrative in Epic: Aeneas’ Eyewitness Account of the Fall of Troy in Virgil Aeneid 2

Stephen Harrison

35 Unhappy Dido, Queen of Carthage

Suzanne Adema

36 Emotional Apostrophes in Silius Italicus’ Punica 6

Pieter van den Broek

37 Metalepsis on the Argo: Debating Hercules in Valerius Flaccus (Arg. 3.598–725)

Mark Heerink

Part 7 Greek Prose of the Imperial Period

38 Emotion and the Sublime

Casper de Jonge

39 The Role of Anger in Epictetus’ Philosophical Teaching

Gerard Boter

40 Emotions and Narrativity in the Greek Romance

Tim Whitmarsh

41 Another Tale of Anger, Honour, and Love: Achilles in Philostratus’ Heroicus

Kristoffel Demoen

Part 8 Late Antiquity and Beyond

42 Claudian’s De raptu Proserpinae: Grief, Guilt, and Rage of a Bereaved Mother

Piet Gerbrandy

43 A Desire (Not) to Die for: Narrating Emotions in Pseudo-Nilus’ Narrations

Koen De Temmerman

44 From Myth to Image to Description: Emotions in the Ekphrasis Eikonos of Procopius of Gaza

Berenice Verhelst

45 How to Write and Enjoy a Tale of Disaster: Eustathios of Thessalonike on Emotion and Style

Baukje van den Berg

46 A Lawyer in Love: Hugo Grotius’ Erotopaegnia (1608)

Edwin Rabbie

Publications of Irene de Jong (until 2021)

Glossary

Indices

Tabula Gratulatoria

Über Autor(innen)

Mathieu de Bakker (Ph.D. 2007, University of Amsterdam) is University Lecturer of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam. He publishes on the Greek historians and orators and is co-author of The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek (Cambridge 2019).

Baukje van den Berg (Ph.D. 2016, University of Amsterdam) is currently Assistant Professor of Byzantine Studies at Central European University, Vienna. She has published on Byzantine scholarship and education and is completing a monograph on the Commentary on the Iliad by Eustathios of Thessalonike for OUP.

Jacqueline Klooster (Ph.D. 2009, University of Amsterdam) is an Assistant Professor of Greek at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. She publishes on Hellenistic Poetry (Poetry as Window and Mirror. Positioning the Poet in Hellenistic Poetry, Leiden / Boston 2011) and is co-editor of the Hellenistica Groningana series.

Contributors are Suzanne Adema, Rutger Allan, Mathieu de Bakker, Silvio Bär, Baukje van den Berg, Anton Bierl, Gerard Boter, Angus Bowie, Pieter van den Broek, Marina Coray, Bruno Currie, Kristoffel Demoen, Koen De Temmerman, Evert van Emde Boas, Patrick Finglass, Margalit Finkelberg, Sofia Frade, Piet Gerbrandy, Lidewij van Gils, Annette Harder, Stephen Harrison, Mark Heerink, Jan Willem van Henten, Luuk Huitink, Casper de Jonge, Geralda Jurriaans-Helle, Ahuvia Kahane, Robert Kirstein, Jacqueline Klooster, Hugo Koning, Martha Krieter, Caroline Kroon, André Lardinois, Françoise Létoublon, Michael Lloyd, Sebastiaan van der Mije, Kathryn A. Morgan, Ilse Müllner, Willie van Peer, Christopher Pelling, Edwin Rabbie, Albert Rijksbaron, Tim Rood, Richard Rutherford, Antonis Tsakmakis, Berenice Verhelst, Gerry Wakker, and Tim Whitmarsh.