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When a Man Is an Island: Introductory Remarks on Being Alone in Antiquity

  • Rafał Matuszewski
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Being Alone in Antiquity
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© 2021 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

© 2021 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Acknowledgements v
  3. Contents vii
  4. When a Man Is an Island: Introductory Remarks on Being Alone in Antiquity 1
  5. Part I: Times and Places
  6. “Are you lonesome tonight?” Nocturnal Solitude in Greek Culture 23
  7. Forms of Solitude and Isolation in the Face of Death in Ancient Greece 41
  8. Solitude, société et politique à Sparte 57
  9. Elite Solitude, Slavery, and Social Privilege at the Imperial Roman Villa 73
  10. O.Frange 773 as a Micro-Discourse on a Solitary Life in Western Thebes 101
  11. Part II: Individuals, Norms and Stereotypes
  12. Einsamkeit und Misanthropie des Weisen: Die Gestalt des Meeresgottes Proteus in Mythos und klassischer Literatur (Homer, Vergil, Ovid) 121
  13. Timon der Misanthrop, social distancing und die Gesellschaft Athens im 5. Jh. v.Chr. 139
  14. Being Unsociable in Classical Athens: A Very Bad Attitude Indeed 149
  15. Dionysius I and the Loneliness of Power (or, The Tyrant as Cyclops) 167
  16. Kallisthenes of Olynthos and the Twofold Image of “Being Alone” at Alexander’s Court 185
  17. A View from the Garden: Contemplative Isolation and Constructive Sociability in Lucretius and in the Epicurean Tradition 201
  18. “Next to yourself, solitude is my best friend” (Cic. ad Att. 12.15 [252]): Cicero’s Experience of Being Alone – A Case Study 229
  19. The Solitude of a Lifetime in Cicero’s De Finibus 5 245
  20. Alleinherrscher – Herrscher allein? Das Tiberiusbild in der Kaiserbiographie Suetons 265
  21. Fori strepitu remotus ruris otium celebravi: Paulinus von Nola balanciert zwischen Weltabgewandtheit und Teilhabe am gesellschaftlichen Diskurs 287
  22. Part III: Gender, Emotions and Mental Conditions
  23. Bellerophon and Akhilleus: Self Destruction and World Destruction in the Iliad 305
  24. The Loneliness of a Marriage with Age Difference in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Exploring the (Im)possibility of Writing Emotional History 319
  25. Das Motiv der Einsamkeit bzw. Verlassenheit in den ovidischen Heroidenbriefen 349
  26. Zu Ovids Vergleich zwischen seinen und Odysseusʼ Leiden (trist. 1,5) 361
  27. Exil, Isolation, Rufmord: Über die Einsamkeit einer Kaisertochter und ihr mediales Nachleben 389
  28. Pathologische Menschenflucht. Melancholische misanthropia in der kaiserzeitlichen und frühbyzantinischen Medizin 435
  29. List of Contributors 459
  30. Index 463
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