Emotionen als Movens der antiken Welt
Handlungsleitende Funktionen von Emotionen in Kultur und Gesellschaft der Antike
Edited by Nicole Diersen
Hardback (Forthcoming)
(November 2026)
ISBN: 9783162003140
6.1 x 9.13 inches
Price: $164.00
In antiquity, emotions were not mere inner states but drivers of action. The contributors to this volume follow them through literature, law, politics, and religion, through the military and social order – and show what fear, grief, and sorrow accomplished in each.
The contributors to this volume examine emotions in antiquity from the perspectives of philosophy, archaeology, and history. They understand emotions not as inner states but as actions and as phenomena accompanying action – and thus as a motor of ancient history. From this premise they trace emotions across every area of antiquity: from literature to law, politics, religion, and the military, as well as social structures and gender. They ask what emotions did in each of these areas – functions that sometimes overlap, sometimes prove specific to a single field. The rhetorical function of emotions, for instance, surfaces everywhere. The dominant emotion, however, shifts: fear in the military, grief, sorrow, and anxiety in the realm of social structures and gender. All contributions draw on theories of emotion. Each develops its own method, tailored to its discipline and open to further research.
Vorwort
Nicole Diersen: Von einer Welt in motion zu einer Welt in emotion: Emotionen in den verschiedenen Bereichen der Antike - eine Einleitung
I. Literatur
Douglas Cairns: Euripides, Tragedy, and the History of Emotion - Mario Baumann und Anna D. Uschner: Bewegende DĂ¼fte: Geruch, Erinnerung und Emotion bei Aischylos und Lukian - Dennis Pausch: Sunt lacrimae rerum: Emotionale Reaktionen auf antike Geschichtsschreibung - Simon Grund: Tears and Laughter: Narrative Emotions and the Festival of Risus in Apuleius' Metamorphoses
II. Recht, Politik und Religion
Florian Sittig: Dichter und Richter: Ă„sthetik, αἰδώς und die Autorität frĂ¼hgriechischer Rechtsprechung - Marian Nebelin: Wohlwollen und Hass als politische Emotionen in Ciceros Rhetorikschriften - Isabelle KĂ¼nzer: Wer fĂ¼rchtet schon den Tod und lacht dabei noch? Angst und Furcht in Salvians De gubernatione Dei
III. Militär
Simon Lentzsch: Bestraft und im Stich gelassen: Emotionen im Kontext von Niederlagen römischer VerbĂ¼ndeter zur Zeit der Republik - Christiane Kunst: Die Feldherren vor der Schlacht von Pharsalos: Emotionen als Teil der KriegsfĂ¼hrung
IV. Soziale Strukturen und Geschlecht
Anna-Lisa Fichte: Verborgene GefĂ¼hlswelten: Kindliche Trauer im klassischen Athen - Meike RĂ¼hl: Im affektiven Ausnahmezustand: Affektkommunikation und Männlichkeit in Ciceros Briefen aus dem Exil
Born 1983; 2021 doctorate at OsnabrĂ¼ck University; Research Associate and assistant to the Chair of Ancient History there.
- Edited by Nicole Diersen
Other Titles in this Series
Emotionen und Politik in der späten römischen Republik
Emotionsstrategien bei Cicero in den Jahren 58-49 v. Chr.
Autothanasia
Funktionalität, Normativität und Emotionalität suizidalen Verhaltens im antiken Griechenland
Emotionale Sprache in Ciceros zweiter Philippika gegen Marc Anton
EinfĂ¼hrung in die emotionslinguistische Textanalyse und Kommentar
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