Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Series Editors' Preface
Introduction: Emotion History and the Classics, Douglas Cairns (University of Edinburgh, UK)
1. Medical and Scientific Understandings, George Kazantzidis (University of Patras, Greece)
2. Religion and Spirituality, Fred S. Naiden (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
3. Music and Dance, Eleonora Rocconi (University of Pavia, Italy)
4. Drama, David Konstan (New York University, USA)
5. The Visual Arts, Viktoria Räuchle (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)
6. Literature, Ruth Scodel (University of Michigan, USA) and Ruth R. Caston (University of Michigan, USA)
7. In Private: The Individual and the Domestic Community, Lin Foxhall (University of Liverpool, UK)
8. In Public: Collectivities and Polities, Angelos Chaniotis (Princeton University, USA) and Catherine Steel (University of Glasgow, UK)
Notes
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

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A comprehensive, thematic reference work covering the cultural history of the emotions from 500 BC to 350 AD.

About the Author

Douglas Cairns is Professor of Classics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the co-editor (with M. Alexiou) of Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After (2017) and (with D. P. Nelis) of Emotions in the Classical World: Methods, Approaches, and Directions (2017). He is also the author of Sophocles: Antigone (Bloomsbury, 2016).