| Description |
1 online resource (243 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Ancient History Series |
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Routledge Studies in Ancient History Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Effective Emotion in Historiography -- Summary of Chapters -- 1 Fundamentals of Emotion: Social Science, History, and Human Behavior -- What Makes an Emotion -- Social Scientific Terminology and Framework -- How Emotions Matter: Import, Appropriateness, Proportionality, and Direction -- Complicating Emotion: Orientation and Multidimensionality -- Ancient Emotion: Terms and Philosophies -- Ancient Greek Terminology for Emotion -- Passion/Spirit -- Ancient Philosophy on Emotion |
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Culture and Emotion -- Conclusion -- 2 Individual Emotions in Context: Polybius, Aristotle, and the Classical Historians -- Emotions of Disapproval -- Anger -- Hatred -- Resentment -- Indignation -- Shame -- Conclusion -- Emotions of Anticipation -- Fear -- Hope -- Emotions of Positive Affect -- Joy and Gladness -- Gratitude -- Gentleness -- Love -- Reflective Emotions -- Sympathy and Empathy -- Pity -- Conclusion -- 3 Internal State Change: The People's Moral Emotions -- Collective Emotion in Theory: The Anacyclosis -- The Development of Human Community -- Cycle of Constitutions -- Tyranny |
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Oligarchy -- Ochlocracy -- The Collapse of the Mixed Constitution -- Comparison to Plato and Aristotle -- Collective Emotion in Practice: Agathocles' Downfall -- Background and Context -- Development of the Emotions Against Agathocles -- Violence, Emotion, and Punishment -- Conclusion -- 4 Emotions at War: Causal Anger and Justifying War -- Emotions During and After War -- Anger as a Cause of War -- The Second Punic War -- Causing the Second Punic War: Justifiable Anger -- Unjustifiable Anger -- Justifying War to Others: Pretexts -- Emotion and Strategic Prudence -- Emotion as a Causal Link |
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Conclusion -- 5 Learning From History: Audience-Based Emotion and Conclusions -- Emotional Persuasion and Learning How to Feel -- The Indefinite Pronoun and Historiographic Readers -- Observers, Both Internal and External -- Pity as a Response -- The Achaean War and the Power of Pity -- Conclusion -- Conclusions: Emotions in the Histories -- Index -- Index of Passages |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Polybius. Historiae.
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History, Ancient -- Historiography
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Emotions -- Historiography
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781003835110 |
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1003835112 |
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