Melancholy, Love, and Time: Boundaries of the Self in Ancient Literature Book

Melancholy, Love, and Time: Boundaries of the Self in Ancient Literature, Ancient literature features many powerful narratives of madness, depression, melancholy, lovesickness, simple boredom, and the effects of such psychological states upon individual sufferers. Peter Toohey turns his attention to representations of these emo, Melancholy, Love, and Time: Boundaries of the Self in Ancient Literature

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Melancholy, Love, and Time: Boundaries of the Self in Ancient Literature
Written by author Peter G. Toohey
Published by University of Michigan Press, January 2004
Ancient literature features many powerful narratives of madness, depression, melancholy, lovesickness, simple boredom, and the effects of such psychological states upon individual sufferers. Peter Toohey turns his attention to representations of these emo
An examination of the effects and meaning of emotional states of distress in ancient literature.

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Introduction 1
1 Sorrow without Cause: Periodizing Melancholia and Depression 15
2 Medea's Lovesickness: Eros and Melancholia 59
3 Seasickness: Boredom, Nausia, and the Self 104
4 Acedia: Madness and the Epidemiology of Individuality 132
5 The Myth of Suicide: Volitional Independence and Problematized Control in the First Century C.E. 161
6 Time's Passing: Catastrophes, Trimalchio, and Melancholy 197
7 Passing Time: Hunting, Poetry, and Leisure 222
8 The Mirror Stage Hostius Quadra and the Alienated Self 261
App Giorgio de Chirico, Time, Odysseus, Melancholy, and Intestinal Disorder 283
Notes 295
Bibliography 353
Index 375

Title: Melancholy, Love, and Time: Boundaries of the Self in Ancient Literature

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Publication Date: January 2004

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Heigh : 9.300 cm (3.66 inches)

Depth: 1.300 cm (0.51 inches)

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Excellent investigation into Plato's use of existing rhetorical forms in order to critique and uproot the socio-political situation of classical Athens.

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	List of Figures
	Introduction	1
1	Sorrow without Cause: Periodizing Melancholia and Depression	15
2	Medea's Lovesickness: Eros and Melancholia	59
3	Seasickness: Boredom, Nausia, and the Self	104
4	Acedia: Madness and the Epidemiology of Individuality	132
5	The Myth of Suicide: Volitional Independence and Problematized Control in the First Century C.E.	161
6	Time's Passing: Catastrophes, Trimalchio, and Melancholy	197
7	Passing Time: Hunting, Poetry, and Leisure	222
8	The Mirror Stage Hostius Quadra and the Alienated Self	261
App	Giorgio de Chirico, Time, Odysseus, Melancholy, and Intestinal Disorder	283
	Notes	295
	Bibliography	353
	Index	375