Melancholy, Love, and Time: Boundaries of the Self in Ancient Literature

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Index 375 Aboriginals. See Australian Aboriginals academics, 326 acedia, 135–56, 157, 269, 317 countermeasures for, 138 epidemic of, 338 individualist and self-assertive, 155 Achilles, 40, 110, 222–27, 239, 254, 343, 350 and Ajax, 222–27 achlus, 168 Acontius and Cydippe, 79–80 activity, 221, 253, 277 and passivity, 56, 234, 262, 268 adulthood, 295, 350 Aedituus, 80 aegritudo, 83, 84, 305 animi, 16, 46–47, 54, 55, 190 Aegritudo Perdicae, 83, 316 Aelian, 126 Aeneas, 276 aequus animus, 118, 119, 123 Aeschylus, 15, 17, 298 affective chain of events, 166 affective contagion, 338 affective map, 276 affective registers, 1, 5, 137, 229 affective shift, 92 affective states, prehistory of, 128 Agamemnon, 40 Age of Saturn, 130 Ajax, 30, 34, 37–41, 43, 145, 171–73, 184, 190, 194, 222–27, 239, 255, 269, 276, 301, 303, 335, 343 akêdeiê, 63 akêdia, 322 Alcmaeon, 34, 301 alcohol/alcoholism, 281, 296, 334 Alexander, 302 Alice in Wonderland, 327 alienation, 26, 264, 271, 272, 273, 291–93, 322. See also isolation; withdrawal from the community, 280 and identity, 266 from self, 155, 262, 264, 273, 280 from the transcendent, 289 alus, 106, 109, 125, 146, 147, 167, 322 nautiôdês, 125 amêchaniê, 43, 44, 49 amor, 249 sui, 267, 268, 272, 275 anacyclosis, 339 Anchises, 203 anger, 3, 29, 33, 36, 37, 39, 49, 59, 73, 166, 249, 276, 302, 303, 304, 335 aniê, 62 animals, 148, 277 annihilation, 213, 336 anomie, 26 anorexia. See starvation; wasting Antiochus, 82–83, 86, 315 anxiety, 82, 151, 171 anxiety attack, 335. See also panic attack/ disorder apatheia, 322 Apicius, 180 apocalypse, 341 Apollo, 15–17, 288 Apollonius of Rhodes, 26, 43–45, 55, 62, 67, 74, 302, 309, 334 Apriate, 67 Apuleius, 85 Aratus, 344 Archilochus, 168, 312 Aretaeus of Cappadocia, 10, 31–32, 50, 54, 71–74, 84, 86, 89, 144, 145, 207, 209, 300, 301, 307, 311, 331 aretê, 42, 301 Argus, 183–84 Ariadne, 290 Aristophanes, 33, 55, 107, 121 Aristotle, 28, 226, 227, 299, 341, 350 Arrian, 228, 345 arrôstia, 307 Artaxerxes, 166–67, 337 Artemis, 15–17 artistic and literary representation, lag between, 127 Asclepiades, 331 assertion, 221, 253, 277 and yielding, 268 Athamas, 34, 301 athumia, 138–39, 140, 142, 145, 149 atrum fel, 36, 302 Augustine, 7 Augustus, 205, 261, 262, 270, 279, 339 Aulus Gellius, 84 aurea mediocritas, 119 Australian Aboriginals, 132–34, 150, 169, 277, 333 magic and medicine, 328 sorcerers, 328 suicides, 175 autarkeia, 118 autism, 263, 273, 351 autonomous self, 184 autumn, 307 Avicenna, 74 Bacchus, 247 Basedow, Herbert, 132–35, 139, 145, 150, 166, 167, 169, 328, 335, 337, 351 battle shock, 151 Beckett, Samuel, 161, 222 Bellerophon, 37–39, 44, 140, 145, 154, 303, 305 Belli, Gioacchino, 315, 323, 325 bipolarity, 30, 39, 49, 301 bipolar depression, 21 of melancholia, 304 black bile, 27–31, 54, 89, 134. See also atrum fel; nigrum fel and vinegar, 209 black ink, 51 blanched cheeks, 277 blistering, 306 blurred vision, 312 blushing, 88, 165, 335 Böcklin, Arnold, 287–93, 351, 352 body, 221, 277 knowledge through, 338 boning, 2, 132–35, 139, 145, 150, 157, 166, 167, 201, 270, 277, 337 symptoms of, 135 boredom, 104–31 definition of, 111 existential, 122 inner form, 208 interiorization of, 106 medicalization of, 128 melancholia, and death, 127 nauseous, 125 not easily named, 108 periodization, 128 simple, 122, 124 as a spiritual condition, 122, 128 and suicide, 168 bowels, 340 burning, 98, 212 sensation, on the skin, 98, 134, 169 Burton, Robert, 1, 2, 15, 59, 159, 261, 309, 338 Byblis, 88, 313, 334 Caelius Aurelianus, 31, 71, 73–74, 89, 208, 300, 305, 311, 332 calenture, 156–57 Caligula, 216 Callimachus, 79–80, 87, 307, 351 Callirhoe, 85, 87, 162–68, 169, 182, 192. See also Chaereas and Callirhoe calm mind, 115. See also aequus animus Calpurnius Piso, 178 Calpurnius Siculus, 347 Calypso, 287–88, 290, 352 Calypso-Ariadne, 292 Calypso-Ariadne-Melanconia, 291 Camus, Albert, 122 Caracalla, 66, 347 Carmentalia, 204 Cassian, 139–40, 141–43, 146, 148, 149, 153, 330 catastrophe/catastrophism, 211–14, 286– 87. See also apocalypse; ecpyrosis; universe, dissolution of 376  Index Cato the Younger, 176, 180–81 Catullus, 74, 298, 306, 312, 313 causation, 25 Celsus, 31, 52, 89, 144, 207, 209, 300, 302, 307, 326 centralization of control structures, 193 Chaereas, 85, 162–68, 170, 173, 175, 177...