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Author:   Shih-Wei Hsu ,  Jaume Llop Raduà
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   116
Weight:   1.015kg
ISBN:  

9789004430754

ISBN 10:   900443075
Pages:   524
Publication Date:   05 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

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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“The full Index of Subjects and Names at the end of the book show how rich this pioneering work is.” - Marten Stol, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, LXXVIII N° 5-6, oktober-december 2021

The full Index of Subjects and Names at the end of the book show how rich this pioneering work is. - Marten Stol, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, LXXVIII N Degrees 5-6, oktober-december 2021

Author Information

Shih-Wei Hsu, Ph.D. (2014), Free University of Berlin, is Associate Professor of History at Nankai University (P.R. China). She is an Egyptologist specialised in Egyptian language, rhetorical stylistics, development of royal inscriptions and kingship. Jaume Llop Raduà, Ph.D. (2001), University of Barcelona, is Professor of Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). He is an Assyriologist specialised in Late Bronze Age Assyria.

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