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26 produkter
In the Mind, in the Body, in the World
Emotions in Early China and Ancient Greece
Av Douglas Cairns, Curie Virág
Inbunden, 2024
1176 kr
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This volume of newly commissioned essays marks a collaborative effort among scholars of ancient Greece and early China to investigate discourses of emotions in ancient philosophy, medicine, and literature from c. 5th century BCE-2nd century CE. The aim is to bring scholars working in the two …
In the Mind, in the Body, in the World
Emotions in Early China and Ancient Greece
Av Curie Virag, Douglas Cairns
E-bok, 2024
1192 kr
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This volume of newly commissioned essays marks a collaborative effort among scholars of ancient Greece and early China to investigate discourses of emotions in ancient philosophy, medicine, and literature from c. 5th century BCE-2nd century CE. The aim is to bring scholars working in the two …
In the Mind, in the Body, in the World
Emotions in Early China and Ancient Greece
Av Curie Virag, Douglas Cairns
E-bok, 2024
1192 kr
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This volume of newly commissioned essays marks a collaborative effort among scholars of ancient Greece and early China to investigate discourses of emotions in ancient philosophy, medicine, and literature from c. 5th century BCE-2nd century CE. The aim is to bring scholars working in the two …
Pursuing the Good
Ethics and Metaphysics in Plato's Republic
Av Douglas Cairns, Fritz-Gregor Herrmann m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1993 kr
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This volume brings together contributions from leading Plato scholars from Britain, Europe and North America on a closely defined topic central to Plato’s thought and to Ancient Philosophy –Plato’s Form of the Good. The importance of the collection lies in the combination and presentation in one …
Defining Greek Narrative
Av Douglas Cairns, Ruth Scodel
Inbunden, 2014
2772 kr
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The ‘Classic’ narratology that has been widely applied to classical texts is aimed at a universal taxonomy for describing narratives. More recently, ‘new narratologies’ have begun linking the formal characteristics of narrative to their historical and ideological contexts. This volume seeks such a …
Law, Rhetoric and Comedy in Classical Athens
Essays in Honour of Douglas M. Macdowell
Inbunden, 2004
1011 kr
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An international cast of distinguished scholars here offers seventeen new contributions on the detail and development of Athenian law; the life, work, and political background of the Attic orators; and the intersection of Attic Comedy with Athenian law, politics, and society. In their detailed and …
Hubris, Ancient and Modern
Concepts, Comparisons, Connections
Av Douglas Cairns, Nick Bouras m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1610 kr
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Ancient Greek terminology continues to shape contemporary discourse; hubris is a case in point. Typically seen as the catastrophic yet common tendency to reach too high, only to fall, it remains a fixture in the contemporary discourse of business and politics. But hubris has also become a term of …
Hubris, Ancient and Modern
Concepts, Comparisons, Connections
Av Eugene Sadler-Smith, Nick Bouras m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
1505 kr
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Cultural History of the Emotions in Antiquity
E-bok, 2020
440 kr
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This volume provides an overview of some of the salient aspects of emotions and their role in life and thought of the Greco-Roman world, from the beginnings of Greek literature and history to the height of the Roman Empire. This is a wide remit, dealing with a wide range of sources in two ancient …
Cultural History of the Emotions in Antiquity
E-bok, 2020
450 kr
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This volume provides an overview of some of the salient aspects of emotions and their role in life and thought of the Greco-Roman world, from the beginnings of Greek literature and history to the height of the Roman Empire. This is a wide remit, dealing with a wide range of sources in two ancient …
Cultural History of the Emotions in Antiquity
Häftad, 2022
417 kr
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This volume provides an overview of some of the salient aspects of emotions and their role in life and thought of the Greco-Roman world, from the beginnings of Greek literature and history to the height of the Roman Empire. This is a wide remit, dealing with a wide range of sources in two ancient …
Slavery and Honour in the Ancient Greek World
Av David Lewis, Mirko Canevaro m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2183 kr
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For the last four decades, the trend in ancient Greek history has been to view the intersection of slavery and honour wholly in terms of dishonour, with slaves often seen as standing outside the dynamics of honour and recognition. Drawing on new approaches to the philosophy, psychology and …
Slavery and Honour in the Ancient Greek World
Av David Lewis, Mirko Canevaro m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
322 kr
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For the last four decades, the trend in ancient Greek history has been to view the intersection of slavery and honour wholly in terms of dishonour, with slaves often seen as standing outside the dynamics of honour and recognition. Drawing on new approaches to the philosophy, psychology and …
Sophocles: Antigone
Av Douglas Cairns, Thomas Harrison
Häftad, 2016
449 kr
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Antigone is Sophocles’ masterpiece, a seminal influence on a wide range of theatrical, literary, and intellectual traditions. This volume sets the play in the contexts of its mythical background, its performance, its relation to contemporary culture and thought, and its rich reception history. But …
Sophocles: Antigone
E-bok, 2016
484 kr
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Antigone is Sophocles'' masterpiece, a seminal influence on a wide range of theatrical, literary, and intellectual traditions. This volume sets the play in the contexts of its mythical background, its performance, its relation to contemporary culture and thought, and its rich reception history. But …
Sophocles: Antigone
E-bok, 2016
484 kr
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Antigone is Sophocles'' masterpiece, a seminal influence on a wide range of theatrical, literary, and intellectual traditions. This volume sets the play in the contexts of its mythical background, its performance, its relation to contemporary culture and thought, and its rich reception history. But …
Sophocles: Antigone
Av Douglas Cairns, Thomas Harrison
Inbunden, 2016
1560 kr
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Antigone is Sophocles’ masterpiece, a seminal influence on a wide range of theatrical, literary, and intellectual traditions. This volume sets the play in the contexts of its mythical background, its performance, its relation to contemporary culture and thought, and its rich reception history. But …
Cultural History of the Emotions in Antiquity
Inbunden, 2021
1612 kr
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This volume provides an overview of some of the salient aspects of emotions and their role in life and thought of the Greco-Roman world, from the beginnings of Greek literature and history to the height of the Roman Empire. This is a wide remit, dealing with a wide range of sources in two ancient …
Greek Laughter and Tears
Antiquity and After
Av Margaret Alexiou, Douglas Cairns
Inbunden, 2017
2772 kr
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What makes us laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time? How do these two primal, seemingly discrete and non-verbal modes of expression intersect in everyday life and ritual, and what range of emotions do they evoke? How may they be voiced, shaped and coloured in literature and liturgy, art and …
Dionysalexandros
Essays on Aeschylus and His Fellow Tragedians in Honour of Alexander F. Garvie
Av Douglas Cairns, Vayos Liapis
Inbunden, 2006
1011 kr
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In seventeen original essays, a distinguished international cast considers the text, interpretation and cultural context of Greek tragedy. There are detailed studies of single plays, of major themes in each of the three tragedians, of modern approaches to tragic text and interpretation, and of the …
Dionysalexandros
Essays on Aeschylus and His Fellow Tragedians: In Honour of Alexander F Garvie
Av Vayos Liapis, Douglas Cairns
E-bok, 2006
1559 kr
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In seventeen original essays, a distinguished international cast considers the text, interpretation and cultural context of Greek tragedy. There are detailed studies of single plays, of major themes in each of the three tragedians, of modern approaches to tragic text and interpretation, and of the …
Body Language in the Greek and Roman Worlds
E-bok, 2005
1396 kr
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A distinguished cast of scholars discusses models of gesture and non-verbal communication as they apply to Greek and Roman culture, literature and art. Topics include dress and costume in the Homeric poems; the importance of looking, eye-contact, and face-to-face orientation in Greek society; the …
Mixed Feelings
An Interdisciplinary Phenomenology. Ancient Emotions V
Av Douglas Cairns, Pia Campeggiani
Inbunden, 2025
2097 kr
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‘Affective valence’ typically refers to the way an affective state feels, i.e. the quality of the (dis)pleasure we subjectively experience: fear usually feels unpleasant, while joy feels good. Yet sometimes affective experience feels ‘bittersweet’, i.e. good and bad at the same time, as when we …
Emotions through Time
From Antiquity to Byzantium
Av Douglas Cairns, Martin Hinterberger m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1844 kr
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Die im Band versammelten Beiträge aus der Altertumswissenschaft und der Byzantinistik untersuchen die komplexen Wechselwirkungen zwischen antikem und byzantinischem Emotionsdiskurs. Die Einbeziehung unterschiedlichster Quellen und Phänomene, methodologische Reflexion sowie die vergleichende …
Emotions in the Classical World
Methods, Approaches, and Directions
Av Damien P. Nelis, Douglas Cairns
E-bok, 2017
669 kr
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The study of ancient emotion has become a substantial and thriving sub-discipline in the fields of Classics and Ancient History, enabling Classicists to make a significant contribution to the wider upsurge in interest in the emotions that has taken place across a range of scholarly disciplines in …
Distributed Cognition in Classical Antiquity
Av Miranda Anderson, Douglas Cairns m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1740 kr
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12 essays by international experts look at how cognition is explicitly or implicitly conceived of as distributed across brain, body and world in Greek and Roman technology, science, medicine, material culture, philosophy and literary studies. A range of models emerge, which vary both in terms of …
