The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia

Körperschaft: Brill Online books and journals.
Weitere Verfasser: Hsu, Shih-Wei , [HerausgeberIn]
Llop-Raduà, Jaume , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021].
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (xi, 523 pages).
Schriftenreihe: Culture and history of the ancient Near East 116.
Schlagworte:
Parallelausgabe: The expression of emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (Print version)
Online Zugang: Available online
Inhaltsangabe:
  • The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia: An Introduction / Shih-Wei Hsu and Jaume Llop Raduà
  • History of Horror: A Diachronic Overview of Fear(s) in Ancient Egyptian Texts / Sven Eicke
  • “I Wish I Could Die”: Depression in Ancient Egypt / Shih-Wei Hsu
  • Royal Rage and Private Anger in Ancient Egypt / Ines Köhler
  • Everybody Hurts: Understanding and Visualizing Pain in Ancient Egypt / Tara Prakash
  • “Without You I Am an Orphan”: Exploring Emotion and Interpersonal Pragmatics in the Late Ramesside Letters / Kim Ridealgh
  • Indexes of Emotions in Pianchy’s Great Stela with Some Cultural Comparisons / Anthony Spalinger
  • “Do Not Cast an Eye on Another One’s Goods …!”: Aspects of Envy, Jealousy and Greed in Ancient Egypt / Alexandra Verbovsek
  • Depression at the Royal Courts of Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal / Greta Van Buylaere
  • Shaping Gender, Shaping Emotions: On the Mutual Construction of Gender Identities and Emotional Roles in Ancient Mesopotamia / Agnès Garcia-Ventura
  • Emotions and Their Expression in a Religious Historical Perspective in Ancient Mesopotamia / Margaret Jaques
  • Expressions of Joy and Happiness in Neo-Assyrian / Mikko Luukko
  • From Landscape to Ritual Performances: Emotions in Sumerian Literature / Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel
  • Jealousy in Akkadian Love Literature: Zarpanītu in the Divine Love Lyrics / Rocío Da Riva
  • Visible Death and Audible Distress: The Personification of Death (Mūtu) and Associated Emotions as Inherent Conditions of Life in Akkadian Sources / Irene Sibbing-Plantholt
  • Gilgamesh and Emotional Excess: The King without Counsel in the SB Gilgamesh Epic / Karen Sonik
  • Pounding Hearts and Burning Livers: The “Sentimental Body” in Mesopotamian Medicine and Literature / Ulrike Steinert
  • Fear in Akkadian Texts: New Digital Perspectives on Lexical Semantics / Saana Svärd, Tero Alstola, Heidi Jauhiainen, Aleksi Sahala, and Krister Lindén