The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia /

The volume The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia offers an overview of the study of emotions in ancient texts, discusses the concept of emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and shows how emotions are described in the ancient texts. In the section dedicated to Ancient Egyp...

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Other Authors: Hsu, Shih-Wei (Editor), Raduà, Jaume Llop (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2021.

Series: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East ; 116.

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505 0 |a Notes on Contributors -- 1 The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia: An Introduction -- Shih-Wei Hsu and Jaume Llop Raduà -- Part 1 The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt -- 2 History of Horror: A Diachronic Overview of Fear(s) in Ancient Egyptian Texts -- Sven Eicke -- 3 "I Wish I Could Die": Depression in Ancient Egypt -- Shih-Wei Hsu -- 4 Royal Rage and Private Anger in Ancient Egypt -- Ines Köhler -- 5 Everybody Hurts: Understanding and Visualizing Pain in Ancient Egypt -- Tara Prakash -- 6 "Without You I Am an Orphan": Exploring Emotion and Interpersonal Pragmatics in the Late Ramesside Letters -- Kim Ridealgh -- 7 Indexes of Emotions in Pianchy's Great Stela with Some Cultural Comparisons -- Anthony Spalinger -- 8 "Do Not Cast an Eye on Another One's Goods ...!": Aspects of Envy, Jealousy and Greed in Ancient Egypt -- Alexandra Verbovsek -- Part 2 The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Mesopotamia -- 9 Depression at the Royal Courts of Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal -- Greta Van Buylaere -- 10 Shaping Gender, Shaping Emotions: On the Mutual Construction of Gender Identities and Emotional Roles in Ancient Mesopotamia -- Agnès Garcia-Ventura -- 11 Emotions and Their Expression in a Religious Historical Perspective in Ancient Mesopotamia -- Margaret Jaques -- 12 Expressions of Joy and Happiness in Neo-Assyrian -- Mikko Luukko -- 13 From Landscape to Ritual Performances: Emotions in Sumerian Literature -- Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel -- 14 Jealousy in Akkadian Love Literature: Zarpanītu in the Divine Love Lyrics -- Rocío Da Riva -- 15 Visible Death and Audible Distress: The Personification of Death ( Mūtu ) and Associated Emotions as Inherent Conditions of Life in Akkadian Sources -- Irene Sibbing-Plantholt -- 16 Gilgamesh and Emotional Excess: The King without Counsel in the SB Gilgamesh Epic -- Karen Sonik -- 17 Pounding Hearts and Burning Livers: The "Sentimental Body" in Mesopotamian Medicine and Literature -- Ulrike Steinert -- 18 Fear in Akkadian Texts: New Digital Perspectives on Lexical Semantics -- Saana Svärd, Tero Alstola, Heidi Jauhiainen, Aleksi Sahala and Krister Lindén -- Index of Subjects and Names -- Index of Sources -- Index of Words. 
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