Hope, joy, and affection in the classical world

297 Pages·2016·2.31 MB·English

by  Caston

Hope, Joy, and Affection
in the Classical World
Emotions of the Past
Series Editors
Robert A. Kaster | David Konstan
This series investigates the history of the emotions in pre-m odern societies, tak-
ing 1500 CE as the conventional threshold of modernity. In addition to new
work on Greco-R oman and medieval European cultures, the series provides a
home for studies on the emotions in Near Eastern and Asian societies, including
pre- modern Egypt, India, China, and beyond.
The Elegiac Passion
Jealousy in Roman Love Elegy
Ruth Rothaus Caston
Envy and Jealousy in Classical Athens
A Socio- Psychological Approach
Ed Sanders
Hope, Joy, and Affection in the Classical World
Edited by
Ruth R. Caston and Robert A. Kaster
Hope, Joy, and Affection
in the Classical World
Edited by
Ruth R. Caston
and
Robert A. Kaster
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Names: Caston, Ruth Rothaus. | Kaster, Robert A.
Title: Hope, joy, and affection in the classical world / edited by Ruth R. Caston, Robert A. Kaster.
Description: New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016. | Series: Emotions of the past |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015038589| ISBN 978–0–19–027829–8 | ISBN 978–0–19–027830–4
Subjects: LCSH: Rome—Intellectual life. | Greece—Intellectual life—To 146 B.C. |
Rome—Social life and customs. | Greece—Social life and customs. | Hope—Social aspects—History. |
Joy—Social aspects—History. | Emotions in literature. | Emotions (Philosophy) | Classical literature—
History and criticism. | Philosophy, Ancient.
Classification: LCC DF78 .H72 2016 | DDC 880.9/353—dc23 LC record
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DAVID KONSTAN D.D.
qui in studiis passionum veterum et condendis et favendis
inter primos his xxv annis felicissime laboravit

Contents
Acknowledgments ix
List of Contributors xi
Introduction, Ruth R. Caston and Robert A. Kaster 1
Part I Hope
1. Metaphors for Hope in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry, Douglas Cairns 13
2. Emotion in Vergil’s Georgics: Farming and the Politics of Hope,
Damien Nelis 45
3. “Torn between Hope and Despair”: Narrative Foreshadowing and Suspense
in the Greek Novel, Laurel Fulkerson 75
Part II Joy and Happiness
4. The Irrepressibility of Joy in Roman Comedy, Ruth R. Caston 95
5. Horatius felix, Michael C. J. Putnam 111
6. Anatomies of Joy: Seneca and the Gaudium Tradition, Margaret Graver 123
7. Positive Emotions in Stoicism: Are They Enough? Christopher Gill 143
Part III Fellow Feeling and Kindness
8. Generating Goodwill and Friendliness in Attic Forensic Oratory,
Ed Sanders 163
9. Utility and Affection in Epicurean Friendship: Philodemus On the Gods 3, On
Property Management, and Horace Sermones 2.6, David Armstrong 182
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10. Caritas: Augustine on Love and Fellow Feeling, Gillian Clark 209
11. “If You Could See This Heart”: Mozart’s Mercy, Martha C. Nussbaum 226
Works Cited 241
Index 257
Index of Passages 265
Acknowledgments
We wish to thank Stefan Vranka, of Oxford University Press, for encouraging
the proposal that led to this collection and for seeing it through to acceptance;
Suvesh Subramanian, for moving production along smoothly and efficiently;
and Michael Durnin, for his meticulous copy-e diting. We are also grateful to the
Magie Fund of the Department of Classics in Princeton University for under-
writing the production of the index. Above all we wish to thank the man this
volume seeks to honor, David Konstan, whose pioneering scholarship and tire-
less community building have fostered the intellectual environment in which
such a collection is conceivable.
Ruth R. Caston
Robert A. Kaster
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Princeton, New Jersey
September 15, 2015
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