Being Alone in Antiquity : : Greco-Roman Ideas and Experiences of Misanthropy, Isolation and Solitude / / ed. by Rafał Matuszewski.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Boldrer, Francesca,; Chaniotis, Angelos,; Damet, Aurélie,; Descharmes, Bernadette,; Feddern, Stefan,; Frass, Monika,; Graßl, Herbert,; Gärtner, Thomas,; Hatzilambrou, Rosalia,; Janzen, Darrel,; King, Bruce M.,; Krüpe, Florian,; Laes, Christian,; Matlock, Andres V.,; Matuszewski, Rafał,; Metzger, Nadine,; Müller, Sabine,; Piwowarczyk, Przemysław,; Pownall, Frances,; Sassi, Islème,; Sekita, Karolina,; Tutrone, Fabio,
• HerausgeberIn: Matuszewski, Rafał,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 470 p.)

This volume aims to provide an interdisciplinary examination of various facets of being alone in Greco-Roman antiquity. Its focus is on solitude, social isolation and misanthropy, and the differing perceptions and experiences of and varying meanings and connotations attributed to them in the ancient world. Individual chapters examine a range of ancient contexts in which problems of solitude, loneliness, isolation and seclusion arose and were discussed, and in doing so shed light on some of humankind’s fundamental needs, fears and values.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- When a Man Is an Island: Introductory Remarks on Being Alone in Antiquity -- Part I: Times and Places -- “Are you lonesome tonight?” Nocturnal Solitude in Greek Culture -- Forms of Solitude and Isolation in the Face of Death in Ancient Greece -- Solitude, société et politique à Sparte -- Elite Solitude, Slavery, and Social Privilege at the Imperial Roman Villa -- O.Frange 773 as a Micro-Discourse on a Solitary Life in Western Thebes -- Part II: Individuals, Norms and Stereotypes -- Einsamkeit und Misanthropie des Weisen: Die Gestalt des Meeresgottes Proteus in Mythos und klassischer Literatur (Homer, Vergil, Ovid) -- Timon der Misanthrop, social distancing und die Gesellschaft Athens im 5. Jh. v.Chr. -- Being Unsociable in Classical Athens: A Very Bad Attitude Indeed -- Dionysius I and the Loneliness of Power (or, The Tyrant as Cyclops) -- Kallisthenes of Olynthos and the Twofold Image of “Being Alone” at Alexander’s Court -- A View from the Garden: Contemplative Isolation and Constructive Sociability in Lucretius and in the Epicurean Tradition -- “Next to yourself, solitude is my best friend” (Cic. ad Att. 12.15 [252]): Cicero’s Experience of Being Alone – A Case Study -- The Solitude of a Lifetime in Cicero’s De Finibus 5 -- Alleinherrscher – Herrscher allein? Das Tiberiusbild in der Kaiserbiographie Suetons -- Fori strepitu remotus ruris otium celebravi: Paulinus von Nola balanciert zwischen Weltabgewandtheit und Teilhabe am gesellschaftlichen Diskurs -- Part III: Gender, Emotions and Mental Conditions -- Bellerophon and Akhilleus: Self Destruction and World Destruction in the Iliad -- The Loneliness of a Marriage with Age Difference in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Exploring the (Im)possibility of Writing Emotional History -- Das Motiv der Einsamkeit bzw. Verlassenheit in den ovidischen Heroidenbriefen -- Zu Ovids Vergleich zwischen seinen und Odysseusʼ Leiden (trist. 1,5) -- Exil, Isolation, Rufmord: Über die Einsamkeit einer Kaisertochter und ihr mediales Nachleben -- Pathologische Menschenflucht. Melancholische misanthropia in der kaiserzeitlichen und frühbyzantinischen Medizin -- List of Contributors -- Index