Envy and Jealousy in Classical Athens: A Socio-Psychological Approach

by Ed Sanders

Emotions 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 z los. This has value, but also limitations,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199897727
• ISBN13: 9780199897728
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"