Envy and jealousy in classical Athens : a socio-psychological approach / Ed Sanders.

The author applies to Athenian culture and literature insights on the contexts, conscious and subconscious motivations, subjective manifestations, and indicative behaviours of envy, jealousy, and related emotions, derived from modern (post-1950) philosophical, psychological, psychoanalytical, sociol...

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Main Author: Sanders, Ed, 1973- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Series:Emotions of the past.
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Table of Contents:
  • Envy, jealousy and related emotions : modern theories
  • The vocabulary of Greek envy and jealousy
  • Aristotle on phthonos
  • Phthonos and the Attic oratorical corpus
  • Audience phthonos in old comedy
  • Onstage phthonos in old comedy and tragedy
  • Sexual jealousy in classical Athens.