Unveiling Emotions III: Arousal, Display, and Performance of Emotions in the Greek World

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The study of emotions has emerged in the last two decades as a major research subject in ancient studies. One of the primary aims of the study of emotions in the context of Greek and Roman Antiquity is to explore the means through which emotions are displayed and aroused, the contexts in which these media were applied, and the aims that they served. These are the themes addressed by the studies assembled in this volume, based on research conducted in association with a research project in Oxford. The subjects discussed by the authors include the use of disgust for the stigmatization and marginalization of individuals and groups; the use of emotions such as anger, pity, hope, fear, and affection for the construction of social hierarchies and political fictions; the various means used for the arousal of emotions in drama, historiography, oratory, and art; emotional aspects in the work of Isocrates, Polybios, and Philostratos; the role of emotions in rhetorical training, court dramas, petitions, and magic; and the display and arousal of emotions in ancient pantomime. CONTENTS PREFACE (Angelos Chaniotis) Display, arousal, and performance of emotions: Introduction PART ONE: Emotional Constructions (Dimos Spatharas) Projective disgust and its uses in ancient Greece (Angelos Chaniotis) Power relations as emotional relations: Hellenistic and Imperial realities and fictions (Sophia Kravaritou) Displaying guilt, remorse, and redemption in Greek public contexts (Maria G. Xanthou) Isocrates and emotional intelligence theory: from local audience to international politics (Vasiliki Giannopoulou) Emotions and politics in Polybios Book Six PART TWO: Arousing Emotions (Matthew Peebles) Threatening gods for fearful mortals: Weapon-brandishing divinities in ancient Greek art (John Tait) Examining the exploitation of the emotion in Demotic Egyptian letter-writing (Vasiliki Giannopoulou) Autopatheia: personal empathic experience, didactic mission, and readershaped empathy in Polybios (Elizabeth Potter) Learning emotion: the progymnasmata and the rhetorical education of the ancient audience (Bernhard Palme) Emotional strategies in petitions of Dioskoros of Aphrodito PART THREE: Performing Emotions (Marco Fantuzzi) Describing images, connoting feelings: choral ecphrasis in Euripides (Helen Slaney) Repetition makes it tragic: emotion in ancient pantomime (Elizabeth Potter) Emotion, performance, and persuasion in Philostratos’ Lives of the Sophists (Dimitris Karambelas) Emotions in court: judicial display and psychic audience between the Imperial period and Late Antiquity (David Frankfurter) Desperation and the magic of appeal: representation of women’s emotion in magical spells and ritual figurines INDEX CONTRIBUTORS