TY - BOOK AU - Sanders,Ed TI - Envy and jealousy in classical Athens: a socio-psychological approach T2 - Emotions of the past SN - 9780199897728 PY - 2014/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Aristóteles, KW - LITERATURA GRIEGA KW - COMEDIA GRIEGA KW - ORATORIA KW - TRAGEDIA GRIEGA KW - EMOCIONES KW - ENVIDIA KW - CELOS KW - PHTHONOS N1 - 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 N2 - motions vary extensively 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 these major emotions in Athens. Previous scholarship has primarily taken a lexical approach, focusing on usage of the Greek words phthonos and zêlos. 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 ER -