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Roma Sinica. Mutual interactions between Ancient Roman and Eastern Thought is an original and totally new element in the panorama of classical and comparative studies. The series, generously supported by the SIAC, it aims to publish works concerning the relationships between Ancient Western (Greek, Roman) and Eastern (Korean, Chinese, Japanese) thought. The mutual reception studies include interchange under various profiles (philosophical, religious, historical, literary), translations of Chinese/and Korean texts into Latin and vice versa, philology of ancient Chinese and Latin texts that share a common interest in the two civilizations and so on.
Series Editors:
Andrea Balbo, University of Turin
Jaewon Ahn, Seoul National University
Advisory Board:
Michele Ferrero, Beijing Foreign Studies University
Lee Kangjae, Seoul National University
David Konstan, New York University
Fritz-Heiner Mutschler, em. Technische Universität Dresden
Stefania Stafutti, University of Turin
Carlo Santini, University of Perugia
Alessandro Schiesaro, University of Manchester
Aldo Setaioli, University of Perugia
It is now recognized that emotions have a history. In this book, eleven scholars examine a variety of emotions in ancient China and classical Greece, in their historical and social context. A general introduction presents the major issues in the analysis of emotions across cultures and over time in a given tradition. Subsequent chapters consider how specific emotions evolve and change. For example, whereas for early Chinese thinkers, worry was a moral defect, it was later celebrated as a sign that one took responsibility for things. In ancient Greece, hope did not always focus on a positive outcome, and in this respect differed from what we call “hope.” Daring not to do, or “undaring,” was itself an emotional value in early China. While Aristotle regarded the inability to feel anger as servile, the Roman Stoic Seneca rejected anger entirely. Hatred and revenge were encouraged at one moment in China and repressed at another. Ancient Greek responses to tragedy do not map directly onto modern emotional registers, and yet are similar to classical Chinese and Indian descriptions. There are differences in the very way emotions are conceived. This book will speak to anyone interested in the many ways that human beings feel.
The volume includes the proceedings of the 2nd Roma Sinica project conference held in Seoul in September 2019 and aims to compare some features of the ancient political thought in the Western classical tradition and in the Eastern ancient thought. The contributors, coming from Korea, Europe, USA, China, Japan, propose new patterns of interpretation of the mutual interactions and proximities between these two cultural worlds and offer also a perspective of continuity between contemporary and ancient political thought.
Therefore, this book is a reference place in the context of the comparative research between Roman (and early Greek thought) and Eastern thought. Researchers interested in Cicero, Seneca, Plato, post-Platonic and post Aristotelic philosophical schools, history, ancient Roman and Chinese languages could find interesting materials in this work.
This book explores the relationships between ancient Roman and Confucian thought, paying particular attention to their relevance for the contemporary world. More than 10 scholars from all around the world offer thereby a reference work for the comparative research between Roman (and early Greek) and Eastern thought, setting new trends in the panorama of Classical and Comparative Studies.