Envy and Jealousy in Classical Athens A Socio-Psychological Approach [Hardcover]

Emotions vary extensively between cultures, especially in their eliciting conditions, social acceptability, forms of expression, and co-extent of terminology.Envy and Jealousy in Classical Athensexamines the sensation, expression, and literary representation of these major emotions in Athens. Previous scholarship has primarily taken a lexical approach, focusing on usage of the Greek wordsphthonosandz?los. This has value, but also limitations, for two reasons: the discreditable nature of phthonos renders its ascription or disclamation suspect, and there is no Classical Greek label for sexual jealousy. A complementary approach is therefore required, one which reads the expressed values and actions of entire situations.

Building on recent developments in reading emotion scripts in classical texts, this book applies to Athenian culture and literature insights on the contexts, conscious and subconscious motivations, subjective manifestations, and indicative behaviors of envy, jealousy, and related emotions. These critical insights are derived from modern philosophical, psychological, psychoanalytical, sociological, and anthropological scholarship, thus enabling an exploration of both the explicit theorization and evaluation of envy and jealousy, and also the more oblique ways in which they find expression across different genres-in particular philosophy, oratory, comedy, and tragedy. By employing this new methodology, Ed Sanders illuminates a significant and underexplored aspect of Classical Athenian culture and literature.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes on text
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Envy, jealousy and related emotions - modern theories
Chapter 3: The vocabulary of Greek envy and jealousy
Chapter 4: Aristotle onphthonos
Chapter 5:Phthonosand the Attic oratorical corpus
Chapter 6: Audiencephthonosin Old Comedy
Chapter 7: Onstagephthonosin l!