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This volume presents the first results of research conducted on ´The Social and Cultural Construction of Emotions: The Greek Paradigm´ by a research group in Oxford funded by the European Research Council. The project aims at contributing to a better understanding of the social and cultural factors that determine the manifestation of emotions in texts (papyri, inscriptions, literary sources) and in the material evidence from the Greek and Greek-speaking world (c. 800 BCE - c. 600 CE). The four introductory chapters address problems in the study of emotions in antiquity. They are followed by ten case-studies in which the manifestation and arousal of emotions (fear, anger, envy, grief, hope) are studied in various contexts (religion, litigation, political life, art, private life) and in connection with a variety of media (narratives of miracles, dedications, curses, acclamations, petitions, condolence letters, forensic oratory, architecture, images).

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"...will almost certainly help inspire more much-needed work on the emotions in history and on the history of the emotions." Damien Nelis Athenaeum 104, 2016/1

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Chaniotis, Angelos
Angelos Chaniotis, Studium in Athen und Heidelberg, Promotion 1984, Habilitation 1992, arbeitete als Professor für Alte Geschichte in New York, Heidelberg und Oxford. Seit 2010 ist er am Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Griechische Geschichte und Epigraphik, Antike Religionsgeschichte.

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