This volume is the first to explore ancient and Byzantine Greek emotions from a comparative and
synoptic perspective. A distinguished international cast of 17 authors deploys the
methodologies of Classics Byzantine Studies and emotion history to uncover the complex
interactions between ancient and Byzantine emotionology. Its wide-ranging chapters shed new
light on the Byzantine emotional universe and its impact on medieval and early modern culture
and explore the reception and influence of ancient emotion concepts in Byzantine sources.
Textual sources are given due prominence but the volume also investigates wider phenomena such
as visual and material culture performance ritual and the creation of emotional landscapes.
