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Document Details : Title: Emotions in Greek Private Papyrus Letters Author(s): CLARYSSE, Willy Journal: Ancient Society Volume: 47 Date: 2017 Pages: 63-86 DOI: 10.2143/AS.47.0.3242718 Abstract : Study of how emotions are expressed in Greek papyrus letters from the Ptolemaic period until the 7th century AD. Starting point is the Greek vocabulary concerning emotions, e.g. being worried, sad, angry, afraid, hopeful, glad etc. In many cases we can only retrace formulaic expressions and we cannot be sure real emotions are involved. These we can retrace only in a few ‘emotional letters’, in which the tone and style (use of superlatives and other intensifiers, repetition, irony) rather than the vocabulary are vehicles of emotion. Some of the most interesting cases have been collected in a small anthology at the end of the article. |
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