The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia

535 Pages·2020·2.464 MB·English

by  Shih-Wei Hsu, Jaume Llop Raduà

TheExpressionofEmotionsinAncientEgyptandMesopotamia
Culture and History of the
Ancient Near East
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The Expression of
Emotions in Ancient Egypt
and Mesopotamia
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Shih-WeiHsu
JaumeLlopRaduà
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Contents
NotesonContributors ix
1 TheExpressionofEmotionsinAncientEgyptandMesopotamia:An
Introduction 1
Shih-WeiHsuandJaumeLlopRaduà
Part 1
TheExpressionofEmotionsinAncientEgypt
2 HistoryofHorror:ADiachronicOverviewofFear(s)inAncientEgyptian
Texts 25
SvenEicke
3 “IWishICouldDie”:DepressioninAncientEgypt 52
Shih-WeiHsu
4 RoyalRageandPrivateAngerinAncientEgypt 88
InesKöhler
5 EverybodyHurts:UnderstandingandVisualizingPaininAncient
Egypt 103
TaraPrakash
6 “WithoutYouIAmanOrphan”:ExploringEmotionandInterpersonal
PragmaticsintheLateRamessideLetters 126
KimRidealgh
7 IndexesofEmotionsinPianchy’sGreatStelawithSomeCultural
Comparisons 144
AnthonySpalinger
8 “DoNotCastanEyeonAnotherOne’sGoods…!”:AspectsofEnvy,
JealousyandGreedinAncientEgypt 169
AlexandraVerbovsek
vi contents
Part 2
TheExpressionofEmotionsinAncientMesopotamia
9 DepressionattheRoyalCourtsofEsarhaddonandAssurbanipal 201
GretaVanBuylaere
10 ShapingGender,ShapingEmotions:OntheMutualConstructionof
GenderIdentitiesandEmotionalRolesinAncientMesopotamia 220
AgnèsGarcia-Ventura
11 EmotionsandTheirExpressioninaReligiousHistoricalPerspectivein
AncientMesopotamia 238
MargaretJaques
12 ExpressionsofJoyandHappinessinNeo-Assyrian 255
MikkoLuukko
13 FromLandscapetoRitualPerformances:EmotionsinSumerian
Literature 283
Anne-CarolineRenduLoisel
14 JealousyinAkkadianLoveLiterature:ZarpanītuintheDivineLove
Lyrics 306
RocíoDaRiva
15 VisibleDeathandAudibleDistress:ThePersonificationofDeath(Mūtu)
andAssociatedEmotionsasInherentConditionsofLifeinAkkadian
Sources 335
IreneSibbing-Plantholt
16 GilgameshandEmotionalExcess:TheKingwithoutCounselintheSB
GilgameshEpic 390
KarenSonik
17 PoundingHeartsandBurningLivers:The“SentimentalBody”in
MesopotamianMedicineandLiterature 410
UlrikeSteinert
contents vii
18 FearinAkkadianTexts:NewDigitalPerspectivesonLexical
Semantics 470
SaanaSvärd,TeroAlstola,HeidiJauhiainen,AleksiSahalaand
KristerLindén
IndexofSources 503
IndexofWords 509
IndexofSubjectsandNames 514

Notes on Contributors
TeroAlstola
UniversityofHelsinki,Finland
[email protected]
GretaVanBuylaere
WürzburgUniversity,Germany
[email protected]
SvenEicke
UniversityofCologne,Germany
[email protected]
AgnèsGarcia-Ventura
IPOA,UniversitatdeBarcelona,Spain
[email protected]
Shih-WeiHsu
NankaiUniversity,Tianjin,P.R.China
[email protected]
MargaretJaques
UniversityofZurich,Switzerland
[email protected]
HeidiJauhiainen
UniversityofHelsinki,Finland
[email protected]
InesKöhler
FreeUniversityofBerlin,Germany
[email protected]
KristerLindén
UniversityofHelsinki,Finland
[email protected]
x notes on contributors
JaumeLlopRaduà
UniversidadComplutensedeMadrid,Spain
[email protected]
MikkoLuukko
UniversityofHelsinki,Finland
[email protected]
IreneSibbing-Plantholt
FreieUniversitätBerlin,Germany
[email protected]
TaraPrakash
CollegeofCharleston,USA
[email protected]
Anne-CarolineRenduLoisel
UniversityofStrasburg,UMR7044ArcHiMedE,France
[email protected]
KimRidealgh
UniversityofEastAnglia,UK
[email protected]
RocíoDaRiva
UniversityofBarcelona,Spain
[email protected]
AleksiSahala
UniversityofHelsinki,Finland
[email protected]
KarenSonik
AuburnUniversity,USA
[email protected]
AnthonySpalinger
UniversityofAuckland,NewZealand
[email protected]