Envy And Jealousy In Classical Athens: A Socio-Psychological Approach (Emotions Of The Past)

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.

• | Author: Ed Sanders
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 12, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0199897727
• | ISBN-13: 9780199897728