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Kinesis: The Ancient Depiction of Gesture, Motion, and Emotion

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Kinesis: The Ancient Depiction of Gesture, Motion, and Emotion analyzes the depiction of emotions, gestures, and nonverbal behaviors in ancient Greek and Roman texts, and considers the precise language depicting 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.
Ancient authors’ depictions of emotion, gesture, and nonverbal behavior are intrinsically relevant to psychological, social, and anthropological studies of the ancient world, and are perhaps even more important to those who study the texts themselves and try to understand them. The volume will be relevant to scholars studying Greek and Roman society and literature, as well as to those who study the imitation of ancient literature in later societies. Since jargon is avoided and all passages in ancient languages are translated, the volume will be suitable for students from the upper undergraduate level.
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.

Author(s): Christina A. Clark, Edith Foster, Judith P. Hallett
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Year: 2015

Language: English
Pages: 328
City: Ann Arbor

Contents
περὶ τῆς σχόλης τοῦ Λατείνου - Michael Mcosker
Donald Lateiner: A Sketch - Judith P. Hallett
Introduction - Christina A. Clark and Edith Foster
Part 1. Ancient Greek Historiography
Chapter 1. Kinesis in the Preface to Thucydides - Jeffrey Rusten
Chapter 2. Natural Upheavals in Thucydides (and Herodotus) - Rosaria Vignolo Munson
Chapter 3. Action and Consequences: The Historical Present Tense in the Opening Narrative of Book 8 of Thucydides - Edith Foster
Chapter 4. Herodotus and Thucydides on Not Learning from Mistakes - Hans-Peter Stahl
Chapter 5. Speaking Silences in Herodotus and Sophocles - Carolyn Dewald and Rachel Kitzinger
Chapter 6. Two Tales of Spartan Envoys - Deborah Boedeker
Chapter 7. Gorgias in the Real World: Hermocrates on Interstate Stasis and the Defense of Sicily - Daniel P. Tompkins
Chapter 8. Manly Matters: Gender, Emotion, and the Writing of History - John Marincola
Part 2. Emotion and Nonverbal Behavior
Chapter 9. Masculinity, Nonverbal Behavior, and Pompey’s Death in Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile - Christina A. Clark
Chapter 10. Nonverbal Behavior in Seneca’s Phaedra - Carolin Hahnemann
Chapter 11. Elephant Tears: Animal Emotion in Pliny and Aelian - Ellen Finkelpearl
Chapter 12. Lucian’s Courtesans: Vulnerable Women in a Difficult Occupation - Hanna M. Roisman
Chapter 13. Omnia Movet Amor: Love and Resistance, Art and Movement, in Ovid’s Daphne and Apollo Episode (Metamorphoses 1.452–567) - Judith P. Hallett
Chapter 14. Verbal Behavior in the Iliad - Eliot Wirshbo
Chapter 15. Shipwreck Narratives in Homer’s Odyssey and Coetzee’s Foe - James V. Morrison
Chapter 16. Phrontisterion 2.0: Aristophanes’ Clouds and Plato’s Critique of Pedagogies in the Symposium - Bruce Heiden
Chapter 17. Hephaestus’ Winged Shoes and the Birth of Athena - Daniel B. Levine
Chapter 18. From Papyrus to Peppercorns: The Tradition of Significant Objects in the Alexander Romance - Brad L. Cook
Bibliography of Donald Lateiner to 2014
Contributors
Index