Emotions across Cultures: Ancient China and Greece

Emotions across Cultures: Ancient China and Greece 

Edited by: David Konstan

Volume 3 in the series Roma Sinica

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110784312

It is now recognized that emotions have a history. In this book, eleven scholars examine a variety of emotions in ancient China and classical Greece, in their historical and social context. A general introduction presents the major issues in the analysis of emotions across cultures and over time in a given tradition. Subsequent chapters consider how specific emotions evolve and change. For example, whereas for early Chinese thinkers, worry was a moral defect, it was later celebrated as a sign that one took responsibility for things. In ancient Greece, hope did not always focus on a positive outcome, and in this respect differed from what we call “hope.” Daring not to do, or “undaring,” was itself an emotional value in early China. While Aristotle regarded the inability to feel anger as servile, the Roman Stoic Seneca rejected anger entirely. Hatred and revenge were encouraged at one moment in China and repressed at another. Ancient Greek responses to tragedy do not map directly onto modern emotional registers, and yet are similar to classical Chinese and Indian descriptions. There are differences in the very way emotions are conceived. This book will speak to anyone interested in the many ways that human beings feel. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Copyright year: 2022
• Audience: Classicists, Philosophers, Ancient and Modern Historians
• Pages
  • Front matter: 8
  • Main content: 334
• Illustrations
  • Illustrations: 8
  • Coloured Illustrations: 2
  • Tables: 2
• Keywords: Antiquity; Greece; emotions; China

eBook

• Published: June 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9783110784312

Hardcover

• Published: June 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9783110779905

 

 

 

 

 

New In ISAW Papers: Re-Rolling the Past: Representations and Reinterpretations of Antiquity in Analog and Digital Games

ISAW Papers 22 (2022)
Re-Rolling the Past: Representations and Reinterpretations of Antiquity in Analog and Digital Games
edited by
Gabriel Mckee and Daniela Wolin

URI: https://hdl.handle.net/2333.1/1jwsv2hb

Abstract: This collection presents papers from the 2020 virtual conference “Re-Rolling the Past: Representations and Reinterpretations of Antiquity in Analog and Digital Games.” Looking at a diverse range of games with a variety of media and mechanisms--including board games, role-playing games, and computer games-- the papers collectively examine games as valuable and useful avenues avenues for communicating information about ancient history and archaeology. Specific topics include the methodology of devising game rules that simulate ancient historical periods, pedagogical gamification and the use of simulations in educational settings, the interpretation of ancient board games in the modern era, and critical approaches to commercial game design.

Table of Contents

    Gabriel Mckee and Daniela Wolin - Introduction
    Hamish Cameron - The Painful Art of Abstraction: Representing the Ancient World in Modern Games
    Shawn Graham, Tom Brughmans, and Iza Romanowska - On Building FORVM: Making Our Research On The Roman Economy Playable...and Fun
    Anne Dunn-Vaturi - Hounds and Jackals in Modern Times
    Sebastian Heath - Game Engines and Playification at Pompeii and for Roman Art and Archaeology

As additional papers presented at the conference complete the editorial process, they will be published here.

ISAW Papers (ISSN 2164-1471) is a publication of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University. The articles in this volume of ISAW Papers were anonymously reviewed prior to publication.