Envy and Jealousy in Classical Athens

A Socio-Psychological Approach
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-989772-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 502 g

Emotions vary between cultures, especially in their eliciting conditions, social acceptability, forms of expression, and co-extent of terminology. Envy and Jealousy in Classical Athens examines the sensation, expression, and literary representation of envy and jealousy in Classical Athens. Previous scholarship has primarily taken a lexical approach, focusing on usage of the Greek words phthonos (envy, begrudging, jealousy, spite) and zêlos (emulative rivalry). This has value, but also limitations, for two reasons: the discreditable nature of phthonos renders its ascription or disclamation suspect, and there is no Classical Greek label for sexual jealousy. A complementary approach is therefore required, which reads the expressed values and actions of entire situations.

Building on recent developments in reading emotion "scripts" in classical texts, this book applies to Athenian culture and literature insights on the contexts, conscious and subconscious motivations, subjective manifestations, and indicative behaviors of envy, jealousy, and related emotions, derived from modern philosophical, psychological, psychoanalytical, sociological, and anthropological scholarship. This enables an exploration of both the explicit theorization and evaluation of envy and jealousy, and also the more oblique ways in which they find expression across different genres--in particular philosophy, oratory, comedy, and tragedy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sanders, Ed

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Acknowledgments

- Abbreviations

- Notes on text

- Chapter 1: Introduction

- Chapter 2: Envy, jealousy and related emotions - modern theories

- Chapter 3: The vocabulary of Greek envy and jealousy

- Chapter 4: Aristotle on phthonos

- Chapter 5: Phthonos and the Attic oratorical corpus

- Chapter 6: Audience phthonos in Old Comedy

- Chapter 7: Onstage phthonos in Old Comedy and tragedy

- Chapter 8: Sexual jealousy in Classical Athens

- Envoi

- Bibliography

- Index locorum

- General index

Über Autor(innen)

Ed Sanders is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London.