Emotions vary between cultures, especially in their eliciting
conditions, social acceptability, forms of expression, and
co-extent of terminology. Envy and Jealousy in Classical Athens
examines the sensation, expression, and literary representation of
envy and jealousy in Classical Athens. Previous scholarship has
primarily taken a lexical approach, focusing on usage of the Greek
words phthonos (envy, begrudging, jealousy, spite) and zelos
(emulative rivalry). 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, 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, derived from modern
philosophical, psychological, psychoanalytical, sociological, and
anthropological scholarship. This enables 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.
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