Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond

Mathieu de Bakker (Ph.D. 2007, University of Amsterdam) is University Lecturer of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam. He publishes on the Greek historians and orators and is co-author of The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek (Cambridge 2019).Baukje van den Berg (Ph.D. 2016, University of Amsterdam) is currently Assistant Professor of Byzantine Studies at Central European University, Vienna. She has published on Byzantine scholarship and education and is completing a monograph on the Commentary on the Iliad by Eustathios of Thessalonike for OUP.Jacqueline Klooster (Ph.D. 2009, University of Amsterdam) is an Assistant Professor of Greek at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. She publishes on Hellenistic Poetry (Poetry as Window and Mirror. Positioning the Poet in Hellenistic Poetry, Leiden / Boston 2011) and is co-editor of the Hellenistica Groningana series.Contributors are Suzanne Adema, Rutger Allan, Mathieu de Bakker, Silvio Bär, Baukje van den Berg, Anton Bierl, Gerard Boter, Angus Bowie, Pieter van den Broek, Marina Coray, Bruno Currie, Kristoffel Demoen, Koen De Temmerman, Evert van Emde Boas, Patrick Finglass, Margalit Finkelberg, Sofia Frade, Piet Gerbrandy, Lidewij van Gils, Annette Harder, Stephen Harrison, Mark Heerink, Jan Willem van Henten, Luuk Huitink, Casper de Jonge, Geralda Jurriaans-Helle, Ahuvia Kahane, Robert Kirstein, Jacqueline Klooster, Hugo Koning, Martha Krieter, Caroline Kroon, André Lardinois, Françoise Létoublon, Michael Lloyd, Sebastiaan van der Mije, Kathryn A. Morgan, Ilse Müllner, Willie van Peer, Christopher Pelling, Edwin Rabbie, Albert Rijksbaron, Tim Rood, Richard Rutherford, Antonis Tsakmakis, Berenice Verhelst, Gerry Wakker, and Tim Whitmarsh.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: The Narratology of Emotions in Ancient LiteratureMathieu de Bakker, Baukje van den Berg and Jacqueline KloosterPart 1 Archaic Epic1 A Narratology of the Emotions: Method, Temporality, and Anger in Homer’s IliadAhuvia Kahane2 Narrative and Emotion in the Iliad: Andromache and HelenAngus Bowie3 Fear and Loathing at the XanthusEvert van Emde Boas4 Metaleptic Apostrophe in Homer: Emotion and ImmersionRutger Allan5 In Mortal Danger: The Emotions of Two Fighters in the IliadMarina Coray and Martha Krieter6 Poseidon’s Anger in the OdysseySebastiaan van der Mije7 Emotions and Politeness in Homer’s OdysseyRobert Kirstein8 Emotionally Reunited: Laertes and Odysseus in Odyssey 24Bruno Currie9 Love and Anger: Emotions in HesiodHugo KoningPart 2 Archaic Epic and Beyond10 The Text as LabyrinthFrançoise Létoublon11 Narrating Pity in Greek Epic, Lyric, Tragedy, and BeyondPatrick Finglass12 Deixis in Teichoscopy as a Marker of Emotional UrgencyAlbert Rijksbaron13 Exercises in Anger Management: From Achilles to ArginusaeChristopher Pelling14 Sunt lacrimae rerum: Emotions at the Deaths of Troilus, Priam, and Astyanax in Athenian Black-Figure Vase-PaintingGeralda Jurriaans-Helle15 What the Greeks Left Us: Perspectivation as a Tool in the Pursuit of (Emotional) KnowledgeWillie van PeerPart 3 Early Lyric, Tragedy, and Biblical Poetry16 Passion versus Performance in Sappho Fragments 1 and 31André Lardinois17 Prometheus Bound as ‘Epic’ Tragedy and Its Narratology of EmotionAnton Bierl18 Self-Description of Emotions in Ancient Greek Drama: A First ExplorationGerry Wakker19 Retelling the War of Troy: Tragedy, Emotions, and CatharsisSofia Frade20 Body and Speech as the Site of Emotions in Biblical NarrativeIlse MüllnerPart 4 Greek Prose of the Classical Period21 Herodotean Emotions: Some AspectsRichard Rutherford22 Herodotus, Historian of EmotionsMathieu de Bakker23 Emotions in Thucydides: Revisiting the Final Battle in Syracuse HarbourTim Rood24 The Dark Side of a Narrative: The Power of Emotions, Digressions and Historical Causes in Hellenica OxyrhynchiaAntonis Tsakmakis25 Cyrus’ Tears: An Essay in Affective Narratology and Socratic HistoryLuuk Huitink26 The Joys and Sorrows of the Argument: Emotions and Emotional Involvement in Plato’s Narratives of Philosophical ReasoningMargalit Finkelberg27 The Arousal of Interest in Plato’s Protagoras and GorgiasMichael Lloyd28 Socratic EmotionsKathryn A. MorganPart 5 Hellenistic Literature29 Heracles’ Emotions in Apollonius of Rhodes’ ArgonauticaSilvio Bär30 Away with ‘Angry Young Men’! Intertextuality as a Narratological Tool in the Quarrel Episodes in the Argonautica of Apollonius RhodiusAnnette Harder31 Theocritus and the Poetics of LoveJacqueline Klooster32 Characters, Emotions, and Enargeia in Second MaccabeesJan Willem van HentenPart 6 Latin Literature33 Common Ground and the Presentation of Emotions: Fright and Horror in Livy’s HistoriographyLidewij van Gils and Caroline Kroon34 Dramatic Narrative in Epic: Aeneas’ Eyewitness Account of the Fall of Troy in Virgil Aeneid 2Stephen Harrison35 Unhappy Dido, Queen of CarthageSuzanne Adema36 Emotional Apostrophes in Silius Italicus’ Punica 6Pieter van den Broek37 Metalepsis on the Argo: Debating Hercules in Valerius Flaccus (Arg. 3.598–725)Mark HeerinkPart 7 Greek Prose of the Imperial Period38 Emotion and the SublimeCasper de Jonge39 The Role of Anger in Epictetus’ Philosophical TeachingGerard Boter40 Emotions and Narrativity in the Greek RomanceTim Whitmarsh41 Another Tale of Anger, Honour, and Love: Achilles in Philostratus’ HeroicusKristoffel DemoenPart 8 Late Antiquity and Beyond42 Claudian’s De raptu Proserpinae: Grief, Guilt, and Rage of a Bereaved MotherPiet Gerbrandy43 A Desire (Not) to Die for: Narrating Emotions in Pseudo-Nilus’ NarrationsKoen De Temmerman44 From Myth to Image to Description: Emotions in the Ekphrasis Eikonos of Procopius of GazaBerenice Verhelst45 How to Write and Enjoy a Tale of Disaster: Eustathios of Thessalonike on Emotion and StyleBaukje van den Berg46 A Lawyer in Love: Hugo Grotius’ Erotopaegnia (1608)Edwin RabbiePublications of Irene de Jong (until 2021)GlossaryIndicesTabula Gratulatoria

"The editors set themselves an ambitious undertaking: to provide further insights, in the form of an anthology, into the “vast and fascinating subject” of emotions. This volume does not only meet our expectations but goes well beyond them. Both editors and contributors have adopted a multifaceted approach, which makes it suitable both for experts and non-experts. (...) The papers in this book all contribute to the volume’s purpose: to honor De Jong’s career and enhance her studies. Although a lengthy read, more than 750 pages in total, the text runs smoothly; the wise chronological division adopted by the editors gently walks readers through centuries, without overwhelming them." Giulia Maria Paoletti in BMCR2023.07.04