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Kinesis: The Ancient Depiction of Gesture, Motion, and Emotion
Christina A. Clark, Edith Foster, and Judith P. Hallett, editorsDonald Lateiner, in his groundbreaking work The Sardonic Smile, presented the first thorough study of nonverbal behavior in Homeric epics, drawing a significant distinction between ancient and modern gesture and demonstrating the intrinsic relevance of this "silent language" to psychological, social, and anthropological studies of the ancient world.
Using Lateiner's work as a touchstone, the scholars in Kinesis analyze the depiction of emotions, gestures, and other nonverbal cues in ancient Greek and Roman texts and consider the precise language used to depict them. Individual contributors examine genres ranging from historiography and epic to tragedy, philosophy, and vase decoration. They explore evidence as disparate as Pliny's depiction of animal emotions, Plato's presentation of Aristophanes' hiccups, and Thucydides' use of verb tenses. Sophocles' deployment of silence is considered, as are Lucan's depiction of death and the speaking objects of the medieval Alexander Romance.
This collection will be valuable to scholars studying Greek and Roman society and literature, as well as to those who study the imitation of ancient literature in later societies. Jargon is avoided and all passages in ancient languages are translated, making this volume accessible to advanced undergraduates.
Contributors in addition to the volume editors include Jeffrey Rusten, Rosaria Vignolo Munson, Hans-Peter Stahl, Carolyn Dewald, Rachel Kitzinger, Deborah Boedeker, Daniel P. Tompkins, John Marincola, Carolin Hahnemann, Ellen Finkelpearl, Hanna M. Roisman, Eliot Wirshbo, James V. Morrison, Bruce Heiden, Daniel B. Levine, and Brad L. Cook.
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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Donald Lateiner: A Sketch
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Introduction
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Part 1. Ancient Greek Historiography
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Chapter 1 Kinesis in the Preface to Thucydides
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Chapter 2 Natural Upheavals in Thucydides (and Herodotus)
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Chapter 3 Action and Consequences: The Historical Present Tense in the Opening Narrative of Book 8 of Thucydides
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Chapter 4 Herodotus and Thucydides on Not Learning from Mistakes
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Chapter 5 Speaking Silences in Herodotus and Sophocles
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Chapter 6 Two Tales of Spartan Envoys
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Chapter 7 Gorgias in the Real World: Hermocrates on Interstate Stasis and the Defense of Sicily
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Chapter 8 Manly Matters: Gender, Emotion, and the Writing of History
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Part 2. Emotion and Nonverbal Behavior
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Chapter 9 Masculinity, Nonverbal Behavior, and Pompey’s Death in Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile
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Chapter 10 Nonverbal Behavior in Seneca’s Phaedra
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Chapter 11 Elephant Tears: Animal Emotion in Pliny and Aelian
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Chapter 12 Lucian’s Courtesans: Vulnerable Women in a Difficult Occupation
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Chapter 13 Omnia Movet Amor: Love and Resistance, Art and Movement, in Ovid’s Daphne and Apollo Episode (Metamorphoses 1.452–567)
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Chapter 14 Verbal Behavior in the Iliad
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Chapter 15 Shipwreck Narratives in Homer’s Odyssey and Coetzee’s Foe
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Chapter 16 Phrontisterion 2.0: Aristophanes’ Clouds and Plato’s Critique of Pedagogies in the Symposium
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Chapter 17 Hephaestus’ Winged Shoes and the Birth of Athena
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Chapter 18 From Papyrus to Peppercorns: The Tradition of Significant Objects in the Alexander Romance
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Bibliography of Donald Lateiner to 2014
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Contributors
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Index
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Published: 2015
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-12116-8 (ebook)
- 978-0-472-11959-2 (hardcover)