Scholarship on the emotions in classical antiquity has focused almost entirely on negative emotions, but that is not because the Greeks and Romans had little to

The emotions have long been an interest for those studying ancient Greece and Rome. But while the last few decades have produced excellent studies of individual

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 syste

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