Emotions

Bibliographic Data

ID23677104
AuthorsDouglas Cairns (0000-0003-4408-8967, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages1-6
Publication date2017-06-23
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah30086
OpenAlexW2748011192
ISBN9781444338386
LanguageEN
References cited16

“Emotion” is a contested term, with no agreed definition and a particular history of its own. Ancient historians can explore the historical contingency of analogous concepts in Greek and Latin both in the theories of the major philosophical schools and in a variety of ancient texts. But (ancient) emotion history is a burgeoning field in its own right, using a wider range of literary, non‐literary, visual, and material evidence. Understanding emotion is an essential tool of the ancient historian's art, just as emotion is a fundamental aspect of ancient historiography, both as a cause of historical events and as a fundamental aspect of the presentation and reception of historical narratives.

Aesthetics · Ancient Greek · Archaeology · Art · Contingency · Epistemology · Field (mathematics) · Historiography · Literature · Narrative · Presentation (obstetrics) · Variety (cybernetics) · Computer Science · History · History of Emotions Research · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

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