Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Ιntroductory: ‘Hope’, elpis, spes: Affective and Non-affective Expectancy 1
5. Part I: Elpis. ‘Hope’ in Greek Literature
6. “Poet of Hope”: Elpis in Pindar 35
7. Hope and Hopelessness in Euripides 53
8. Up from Tragicomedy: The Growth of Hope in Greek Comedy 85
9. The Politics of Hopelessness: Thucydides and Aristophanes’ Knights 111
10. Elpis as Emotion and Reason (Hope and Expectation) in Fifth-century Greek Historians 131
11. Part II: Spes. ‘Hope’ in Latin Literature
12. Deos speravi (Miles 1209): Hope and the Gods in Roman Comedy 153
13. uestras spes uritis: Hope and Empire in Virgil’s Aeneid 171
14. Hope Dies Last at Tomis 183
15. ‘A Historian Utterly Without Hope’: Literary Artistry and Narratives of Decline in Tacitus’ Historiae I 213
16. Part III: Scripts of ‘Hope’ in History, Art, and Inscriptions
17. Hope and Slavery 235
18. Velleius Paterculus, the Adoptions of 4 CE, and the Spes Race 259
19. Against Hope? The Untimely elpis of Northern Barbarians 275
20. The Face of Hope: Isolated Heads in South Italian Visual Culture 297
21. Hope and the Sub-adult 329
22. Elpis in the Greek Epigraphic Evidence, from Rational Expectation to Dependence from Authority 351
23. List of Contributors 365
24. Index Rerum et Nominum 369
25. Index Auctorum Antiquorum et Locorum 373
26. Epigraphic and papyrological sources 395