Although ancient hope has attracted much scholarly attention in the past, this is the first book-length discussion of the topic. The introduction offers a systematic discussion of the semantics of Greek elpis and Latin spes and addresses the difficult question of whether hope -ancient and modern- is an emotion. On the other hand, the 16 contributions deal with specific aspects of hope in Greek and Latin literature, history and art, including Pindar's poetry, Greek tragedy, Thucydides, Virgil's epic and Tacitus' Historiae. The volume also explores from a historical perspective the hopes of slaves in antiquity, the importance of hope for the enhancement of stereotypes about the barbarians, and the depiction of hope in visual culture, providing thereby a useful tool not only for classicist but also for philosophers, cultural historians and political scientists.
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| Introductory: `Hope', elpis, spes: Affective and Non-affective Expectancy |
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Part I Elpis. `Hope' in Greek Literature |
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"Poet of Hope": Elpis in Pindar |
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Hope and Hopelessness in Euripides |
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Up from Tragicomedy: The Growth of Hope in Greek Comedy |
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The Politics of Hopelessness: Thucydides and Aristophanes' Knights |
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Elpis as Emotion and Reason (Hope and Expectation) in Fifth-century Greek Historians |
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Part II Spes. `Hope' in Latin Literature |
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Deos speravi (Miles 1209): Hope and the Gods in Roman Comedy |
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Uestras Spes Uritis: Hope and Empire in Virgil's Aeneid |
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171 | (12) |
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183 | (14) |
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Quaenam spes hominum? Dashed Hopes in Statius' Thebaid |
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197 | (16) |
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`A Historian Utterly Without Hope': Literary Artistry and Narratives of Decline in Tacitus' Historiae I |
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213 | (22) |
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Part III Scripts of Hope' in History, Art, and Inscriptions |
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235 | (24) |
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Velleius Paterculus, the Adoptions of 4 CE, and the Spes Race |
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259 | (16) |
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Against Hope? The Untimely elpis of Northern Barbarians |
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275 | (22) |
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The Face of Hope: Isolated Heads in South Italian Visual Culture |
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297 | (32) |
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329 | (22) |
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Elpis in the Greek Epigraphic Evidence, from Rational Expectation to Dependence from Authority |
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351 | (14) |
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| List of Contributors |
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| Index Rerum et Nominum |
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| Index Auctorum Antiquorum et Locorum |
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| Epigraphic and Papyrological Sources |
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George Kazantzidis, University of Patras, Patras, Greece; Dimos Spatharas, University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece.
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