Reading Roman emotions
Subtitle: visual and textual interpretations
By: edited by Hedvig von Ehrenheim & Marina Prusac-Lindhagen
Series: Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Rom. 4o -- 64 = -- Acta Instituti Romani Regni Sueciae. Series in 4o -- 64; Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom -- 64.
Publisher: Svenska Institutet i Rom
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Stockholm
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9789170421860
Subjects: Roman Art; Ethnopsychology; Emotions; Social aspects; Romans; Emotions in art; Emotions in literature; Crying in literature
Description: "This volume is a contribution to the study of culturally bound emotions and emotional response in ancient Rome. Approaches to the study of ancient emotions and how they were culturally specific, appreciated and understood have recently come to the centre of attention, but not so much in the visual as in the literary culture. When socially and affectively contextualized, the material culture of ancient Rome is a potential goldmine of information with regard to emotions. The chapters in the present volume take the reader on a tour through various cases that demonstrate how emotions were expressed through the arts. The tour starts with a fresh view of how emotion history can be used to recover feelings from the visual culture of the past. Visual culture includes animated performances, and the reader is invited to revel in Roman drama, oratory, and love poetry. Words are often clear, but can images reveal laughter and joy, sadness, grief and mourning, virtue and anger? This volume argues that yes, they can, and through the study of emotions it is also possible to obtain a deeper understanding of the Romans and their social and cultural codes"--Dust jacket.
Notes: "The contributions that form the basis for the present volume were presented at a workshop 16-17 April 2014 at the Swedish Institute in Rome. The title of the workshop was 'Reading Emotions in Ancient Visual Culture'"--Page 7. Includes some papers presented at the workshop along with additional papers.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Recovering emotion from visual culture  -- Susan Matt; title: "artifices scaenici, qui imitantur adfectus". Displaying emotions in Roman drama and oratory  -- Gesine Manuwald; title: Emotions in a liminal space. A look at Etruscan tomb paintings  -- J. Rasmus Brandt; title: Humour in Roman villa sculpture. Laughter for social cohesion  -- Hedvig von Ehrenheim; title: Laughter in Roman visual culture, 100 BC-AD 200. Contexts and theories  -- John R. Clarke; title: Reading emotions in Pompeian wall paintings and mosaics  -- Arja Karivieri; title: Blindness and insight. Emotions of erotic love in Roman poetry  -- Thea Selliaas Thorsen; title: Breaking Fury's chains. The representation of anger in the Sala di Giovanni dalle Bande Nere in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence  -- Kristine Kolrud; title: ...and left his parents in mourning...Grief and commemoration of children on Roman memorials  -- Lena Larsson Lovén; title: Trajan's tears. Reading virtue through emotions  -- Johan Vekselius; title: Through the looking glass. Collective emotions and psychoiconography in Roman portrait studies  -- Marina Prusac-Lindhagen; title: Epilogue. Final cosiderations and questions regarding visual and textual emotions -- Jan N. Bremmerr.