Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond : : Studies in Honour of Irene de Jong.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Author: P. de Bakker, Mathieu.
• TeilnehmendeR: van den Berg, Baukje.; Klooster, Jacqueline.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (834 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

"Emotions are at the core of much ancient literature, from Achilles' heartfelt anger in Homer's Iliad to the pangs of love of Virgil's Dido. This volume applies a narratological approach to emotions in a wide range of texts and genres. It seeks to analyse ways in which emotions s...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Editorial Note
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction. The Narratology of Emotions in Ancient Literature (de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster)
• Part 1. Archaic Epic
• Chapter 1. A Narratology of the Emotions: Method, Temporality, and Anger in Homer's Iliad (Kahane)
• Chapter 2. Narrative and Emotion in the Iliad: Andromache and Helen (Bowie)
• Chapter 3. Fear and Loathing at the Xanthus (van Emde Boas)
• Chapter 4. Metaleptic Apostrophe in Homer: Emotion and Immersion (Allan)
• Chapter 5. In Mortal Danger: The Emotions of Two Fighters in the Iliad (Coray and Krieter)
• Chapter 6. Poseidon's Anger in the Odyssey (van der Mije)
• Chapter 7. Emotions and Politeness in Homer's Odyssey (Kirstein)
• Chapter 8. Emotionally Reunited: Laertes and Odysseus in Odyssey 24 (Currie)
• Chapter 9. Love and Anger: Emotions in Hesiod (Koning)
• Part 2. Archaic Epic and Beyond
• Chapter 10. The Text as Labyrinth (Létoublon)
• Chapter 11. Narrating Pity in Greek Epic, Lyric, Tragedy, and Beyond (Finglass)
• Chapter 12. Deixis in Teichoscopy as a Marker of Emotional Urgency (Rijksbaron)
• Chapter 13. Exercises in Anger Management: From Achilles to Arginusae (Pelling)
• Chapter 14. Sunt lacrimae rerum: Emotions at the Deaths of Troilus, Priam, and Astyanax in Athenian Black-Figure Vase-Painting (Jurriaans-Helle)
• Chapter 15. What the Greeks Left Us: Perspectivation as a Tool in the Pursuit of (Emotional) Knowledge (van Peer)
• Part 3. Early Lyric, Tragedy, and Biblical Poetry
• Chapter 16. Passion versus Performance in Sappho Fragments 1 and 31 (Lardinois)
• Chapter 17. Prometheus Bound as 'Epic' Tragedy and Its Narratology of Emotion (Bierl)
• Chapter 18. Self-Description of Emotions in Ancient Greek Drama: A First Exploration (Wakker)
• Chapter 19. Retelling the War of Troy: Tragedy, Emotions, and Catharsis (Frade)
• Chapter 20. Body and Speech as the Site of Emotions in Biblical Narrative (Müllner)
• Part 4. Greek Prose of the Classical Period
• Chapter 21. Herodotean Emotions: Some Aspects (Rutherford)
• Chapter 22. Herodotus, Historian of Emotions (de Bakker)
• Chapter 23. Emotions in Thucydides: Revisiting the Final Battle in Syracuse Harbour (Rood)
• Chapter 24. The Dark Side of a Narrative: The Power of Emotions, Digressions, and Historical Causes in Hellenica Oxyrhynchia (Tsakmakis)
• Chapter 25. Cyrus' Tears: An Essay in Affective Narratology and Socratic History (Huitink)
• Chapter 26. The Joys and Sorrows of the Argument: Emotions and Emotional Involvement in Plato's Narratives of Philosophical Reasoning (Finkelberg)
• Chapter 27. The Arousal of Interest in Plato's Protagoras and Gorgias (Lloyd)
• Chapter 28. Socratic Emotions (Morgan)
• Part 5. Hellenistic Literature
• Chapter 29. Heracles' Emotions in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica (Bär)
• Chapter 30. Away with 'Angry Young Men'! Intertextuality as a Narratological Tool in the Quarrel Episodes in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius (Harder)
• Chapter 31. Theocritus and the Poetics of Love (Klooster)
• Chapter 32. Characters, Emotions, and Enargeia in Second Maccabees (van Henten)
• Part 6. Latin Literature
• Chapter 33. Common Ground and the Presentation of Emotions: Fright and Horror in Livy's Historiography (van Gils and Kroon)
• Chapter 34. Dramatic Narrative in Epic: Aeneas' Eyewitness Account of the Fall of Troy in Virgil Aeneid 2 (Harrison)
• Chapter 35. Unhappy Dido, Queen of Carthage (Adema)
• Chapter 36. Emotional Apostrophes in Silius Italicus' Punica 6 (van den Broek)
• Chapter 37. Metalepsis on the Argo: Debating Hercules in Valerius Flaccus (Arg. 3.598-725) (Heerink)
• Part 7. Greek Prose of the Imperial Period
• Chapter 38. Emotion and the Sublime (de Jonge)
• Chapter 39. The Role of Anger in Epictetus' Philosophical Teaching (Boter)
• Chapter 40. Emotions and Narrativity in the Greek Romance (Whitmarsh)
• Chapter 41. Another Tale of Anger, Honour, and Love: Achilles in Philostratus' Heroicus (Demoen)
• Part 8. Late Antiquity and Beyond
• Chapter 42. Claudian's De raptu Proserpinae: Grief, Guilt, and Rage of a Bereaved Mother (Gerbrandy)
• Chapter 43. A Desire (Not) to Die for: Narrating Emotions in Pseudo-Nilus' Narrations (De Temmerman)
• Chapter 44. From Myth to Image to Description: Emotions in the Ekphrasis Eikonos of Procopius of Gaza (Verhelst)
• Chapter 45. How to Write and Enjoy a Tale of Disaster: Eustathios of Thessalonike on Emotion and Style (van den Berg)
• Chapter 46. A Lawyer in Love: Hugo Grotius' Erotopaegnia (1608) (Rabbie)
• Epilogue (Bal)
• Publications of Irene de Jong (until 2021)
• Glossary
• General Index
• Index of Passages
• Tabula Gratulatoria.