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Envy and jealousy in classical Athens : a socio-psychological approach / Ed Sanders

Author:
Sanders, Ed, 1973-
Published:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 2.Envy, Jealousy, and Related Emotions-Modern Theories -- 3.The Vocabulary of Greek Envy and Jealousy -- 4.Aristotle on Phthonos -- 5.Phthonos in the Attic Oratorical Corpus -- 6.Audience Phthonos in Old Comedy -- 7.Onstage Phthonos in Old Comedy and Tragedy -- 8.Sexual Jealousy in Classical Athens.
Summary:
The author applies to Athenian culture and literature insights on the contexts, conscious and subconscious motivations, subjective manifestations, and indicative behaviours of envy, jealousy, and related emotions, derived from modern (post-1950) philosophical, psychological, psychoanalytical, sociological, and anthropological scholarship. This enables an exploration of both the explicit theorization and evaluation of envy and jealousy in ancient Greek texts, and also the more oblique ways in which they find expression across a variety of genres - in particular philosophy, oratory, comedy and tragedy.
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ISBN:
9780199356973 (ebook)
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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