Hope in Ancient Literature, History, and Art: Ancient Emotions IGeorge Kazantzidis, Dimos Spatharas Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 9 ביולי 2018 - 407 עמודים Although ancient hope has attracted much scholarly attention in the past, this is the first book-length discussion of the topic. The introduction offers a systematic discussion of the semantics of Greek elpis and Latin spes and addresses the difficult question of whether hope -ancient and modern- is an emotion. On the other hand, the 16 contributions deal with specific aspects of hope in Greek and Latin literature, history and art, including Pindar's poetry, Greek tragedy, Thucydides, Virgil's epic and Tacitus' Historiae. The volume also explores from a historical perspective the hopes of slaves in antiquity, the importance of hope for the enhancement of stereotypes about the barbarians, and the depiction of hope in visual culture, providing thereby a useful tool not only for classicist but also for philosophers, cultural historians and political scientists. |
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Hope and Hopelessness in Euripides | 53 |
The Growth of Hope in Greek Comedy | 85 |
Thucydides and Aristophanes Knights | 111 |
Elpis as Emotion and Reason Hope and Expectation in Fifthcentury Greek Historians | 131 |
Spes Hope in Latin Literature | 153 |
Hope and Empire in Virgils Aeneid | 171 |
Velleius Paterculus the Adoptions of 4 CE and the Spes Race | 259 |
Against Hope? The Untimely elpis of Northern Barbarians | 275 |
Isolated Heads in South Italian Visual Culture | 297 |
Hope and the Subadult | 329 |
Elpis in the Greek Epigraphic Evidence from Rational Expectation to Dependence from Authority | 351 |
List of Contributors | 365 |
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Index Auctorum Antiquorum et Locorum | 373 |
Hope Dies Last at Tomis | 183 |
Literary Artistry and Narratives of Decline in Tacitus Historiae I | 213 |
Scripts of Hope in History Art and Inscriptions | 235 |
Epigraphic and papyrological sources | 395 |