Honour in classical Greece: esteem, status, identity, and society in ancient Greek literature, life, and thought

Project Information

HCG

Grant agreement ID: 741084

DOI

10.3030/741084

Project closed

EC signature date 8 May 2017

Start date 1 January 2018

End date 31 December 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 893 626,00

EU contribution

€ 1 893 626,00

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
United Kingdom

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Publications

Thesis and dissertations (2)

Honour in the oikos: reciprocity, respect, and recognition in fourth-century Athens

Author(s): Mazzinghi Gori, Bianca
Published in: 2023
Publisher: University of Edinburgh
DOI: 10.7488/era/3476

Atimia: dishonour, disfranchisement, and civic disability in archaic and classical Athens

Author(s): Rocchi, Linda
Published in: 2023
Publisher: University of Edinburgh
DOI: 10.7488/era/3363

Peer reviewed articles (19)

Introduction: Contempt, ancient and modern

Author(s): Douglas Cairns
Published in: Emotion Review, Issue Volume 15, Issue 3, 2023, Page(s) 161-167, ISSN 1754-0739
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/17540739231185272

Homero, Aristóteles y la naturaleza de la compasión

Author(s): Douglas Cairns
Published in: Circe, Issue Volume 26, Issue 2, 2022, Page(s) 45-74, ISSN 1514-3333
Publisher: National University of La Pampa
DOI: 10.19137/circe-2022-260202

The public charge for hubris against slaves: The honour of the victim and the honour of the hubristēs

Author(s): Mirko Canevaro
Published in: The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Issue 138, 2018, Page(s) 100-126, ISSN 0075-4269
Publisher: Council of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
DOI: 10.1017/s0075426918000071

Lista dei caduti in guerra della tribù Eretteide

Author(s): Matteo Zaccarini
Published in: Lista dei caduti in guerra della tribù Eretteide, Issue 4/1, 2020, Page(s) 51-86, ISSN 2532-6848
Publisher: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari

Hybris e ingiustizia in Aristotele

Author(s): Douglas Cairns
Published in: Rivista di Diritto Ellenico, Issue Volume 9, 2021, Page(s) 15-42, ISSN 2239-6675
Publisher: Edizioni dell’Orso

Aristotle on the causes of civil strife: Subjective dispositions, proportional justice and the ‘occasions’ of stasis

Author(s): Douglas Cairns, Mirko Canevaro, Kleanthis Mantzouranis
Published in: MAIA: Rivista di Letterature Classiche, Issue LXXII/3, 2021, Page(s) 551-570, ISSN 2611-805X
Publisher: Editrice Morcelliana

Recognition and redistribution in Aristotle’s account of stasis

Author(s): Douglas Cairns, Mirko Canevaro, Kleanthis Mantzouranis
Published in: Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, Issue 39/1, 2022, Page(s) 1-34, ISSN 2051-2996
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340354

Xenophon’s Hybris: Leadership, Violence and the Normative Use of Shame in Anabasis 5.8

Author(s): Matteo Zaccarini
Published in: Classical Quarterly, Issue 72/1, 2022, Page(s) 152-166, ISSN 0009-8388
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0009838822000325

From (Apt) Contempt to (Legal) Dishonor: Two Kinds of Contempt and the Penalty of Atimia

Author(s): Linda Rocchi
Published in: Emotion Review, Issue Volume 15, Issue 3 (July 2023), 2023, Page(s) 200-206, ISSN 1754-0739
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/17540739231184272

Recognition and redistribution in Aristotle’s Account of Stasis: A response to our critics

Author(s): Douglas Cairns*, Mirko Canevaro, Kleanthis Mantzouranis
Published in: Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, Issue 40/3, 2023, Page(s) 349-368, ISSN 2051-2996
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/20512996-12340413

The Erechtheis war casualty list

Author(s): Zaccarini, Matteo
Published in: Axon, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp - (2020), Issue 1, 2020, Page(s) 51-86, ISSN 2689-288X
Publisher: Venice University Press
DOI: 10.30687/axon/2532-6848/2020/01/003

L’accusa pubblica di hybris contro gli schiavi: L’onore della vittima e l’onore dell’hybristes

Author(s): Mirko Canevaro
Published in: Rivista di Diritto Ellenico, Issue 9, 2021, Page(s) 43-90, ISSN 2239-6675
Publisher: Edizioni dell’Orso

Honour and Kingship in Herodotus: Status, Role, and the Limits of Self-Assertion

Author(s): Prof. Douglas Cairns
Published in: Special issue on ‘Virtues, Roles, Duties in Early China and Graeco-Roman Antiquity, 2019, ISSN 1673-355X
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.3868/s030-008-019-0005-4

Lista dei caduti in guerra della tribù Eretteide

Author(s): Matteo Zaccarini
Published in: Axon, Issue 1, 2020, Page(s) 51–86, ISSN 2532-6848
Publisher: Edizioni Ca' Foscari
DOI: 10.30687/axon/2532-6848/2020/01/003

ΘΥΜΌΣ in Homer: Philological, oral-poetic, and cognitive approaches

Author(s): Douglas Cairns
Published in: Quaestiones Oralitatis, Issue Volume IV, 2021, Page(s) 13-30, ISSN 2449-8181
Publisher: Centre for the Study of Oral Culture (University of Wrocław)
DOI: 10.34616/qo.2019.4.13.30

Honour and Kingship in Herodotus: Status, Role, and the Limits of Self-Assertion

Author(s): Cairns, Douglas
Published in: Frontiers of Philosophy in China, Issue 3, 2019, Page(s) 75-93, ISSN 1673-3436
Publisher: Higher Education Press
DOI: 10.3868/s030-008-019-0005-4

The Dynamics of Emotion in Euripides’ Medea’

Author(s): Douglas Cairns
Published in: Greece & Rome, Issue Volume 68 Special Issue 1: The Emotions of Medea, 2021, Page(s) 8 - 26, ISSN 0017-3835
Publisher: Clarendon Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0017383520000212

Ruling through Fear. Cyrus the Great in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia

Author(s): Matteo Zaccarini
Published in: Klio, Issue vol. 105, no. 2, 2023, 2023, Page(s) 538-557, ISSN 2192-7669
Publisher: De Gruyter (A)
DOI: 10.1515/klio-2023-0005

What Does Aristotle's Moral Exemplar Feel Contempt For?

Author(s): Mantzouranis K.
Published in: Crossref, Issue 4, 2023, ISSN 1754-0739
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/17540739231184420

Book chapters (20)

Social mobility vs. societal stability. Once again on the aims and meaning of Solon's reforms

Author(s): Mirko Canevaro
Published in: From Homer to Solon: Continuity and Change in Archaic Greece, Issue 454, 2022, Page(s) 363–413, ISBN 9789004513624
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004513631_015

Courage in war and the courage of the war dead: Ancient and modern reflections

Author(s): Mirko Canevaro
Published in: Commemorating War and War Dead, 2019, Page(s) 187-206, ISBN 978-3-515-12175-0
Publisher: Steiner Verlag

Anchoring the tripartite soul

Author(s): Douglas Cairns
Published in: Resisting and justifying changes: How to make the new acceptable in the Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern world, 2021, Page(s) 181-209, ISBN 9788833395081
Publisher: Pisa University Press

Recognition and imbalances of power: Honour relations and slaves’ claims vis-à-vis their masters

Author(s): Canevaro, Mirko
Published in: Slavery and Honour in the Ancient Greek World, 2025
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Mental conflict from Homer to Eustathius

Author(s): Douglas Cairns
Published in: Emotions through Time: From Antiquity to Byzantium, 2022, Page(s) 227-246, ISBN 9783161613418
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-161400-2

Shame

Author(s): Cairns, Douglas
Published in: C. A. Baron (ed.), The Herodotus Encyclopedia, 2021, Page(s) 1318-1320
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Can We Find Hope in Ancient Greek Philosophy? Elpis in Plato and Aristotle

Author(s): Douglas Cairns
Published in: Emotions across Cultures: Ancient China and Greece, Issue Roma Sinica Volume 3, 2022, Page(s) 41-74, ISBN 9783110779905
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110784312-003

Identity, status, and ‘dishonour': Was atimia relevant only to citizens?

Author(s): Linda Rocchi
Published in: Citizenship in Antiquity: Civic Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean, 2023, Page(s) 327-341, ISBN 9780367687113
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003138730-28

Vengeance

Author(s): Cairns, Douglas
Published in: C. A. Baron (ed.), The Herodotus Encyclopedia, 2021, Page(s) 1518-1522
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Phaedra’s Fantasy Other: Phenomenology and the Enactive Mind in Euripides’ Hippolytus

Author(s): Douglas Cairns
Published in: Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature: From Homer to Epicurus, Issue 1, 2020, ISBN 9783110699616
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110699616-007

Honor

Author(s): Cairns, Douglas
Published in: C. A. Baron (ed.), The Herodotus Encyclopedia, 2021, Page(s) 703-6
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Upside-down hegemony? Ideology and power in ancient Athens

Author(s): Mirko Canevaro
Published in: Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World, 2021, Page(s) 63-85, ISBN 9780429201684
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.4324/9780429201684

Hybris and Injustice in Aristotle

Author(s): Douglas Cairns
Published in: Les philosophes face au vice, de Socrate à Augustin, 2020, Page(s) 147–74, ISBN 978-90-04-43238-3
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004432390_010

I diritti come spazio di socialità: la timē tra diritto e dovere

Author(s): Mirko Canevaro
Published in: Dike. Ovvero della giustizia tra l’Olimpo e la terra, 2020, Page(s) 57-77, ISBN 9788-857563909
Publisher: Mimesis

Anger

Author(s): Cairns, Douglas
Published in: C. A. Baron (ed.), The Herodotus Encyclopedia, 2021, Page(s) 81-84
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

I diritti come spazio di socialità: La timē tra diritto e dovere

Author(s): Mirko Canevaro
Published in: Dike. Ovvero della giustizia tra l'Olimpo e la terra, 2020, Page(s) 157-177, ISBN 9788857563909
Publisher: Mimesis Edizioni

thymos

Author(s): Cairns, Douglas; Cairns, Douglas
Published in: Oxford Classical Dictionary, Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.8180

I diritti come spazio di socialità:La timē tra diritto e dovere

Author(s): Mirko Canevaro
Published in: Canevaro , M 2020 , I diritti come spazio di socialità : La timē tra diritto e dovere . in A Camerotto & F Pontani (eds) , Dike. Ovvero della giustizia tra l'Olimpo e la terra . Mimesis Edizioni , Milano-Udine , pp. 157-177 ., Issue 3, 2020, Page(s) 157-177
Publisher: Mimesis Edizioni

Can You Trust Xerxes to Be Your Friend? Friendship and Autocracy in Herodotus

Author(s): Kleanthis Mantzouranis
Published in: Friendship in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature: Essays in Honour of Chris Carey and Michael J. Edwards, Issue Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 474, 2023, Page(s) 177-195, ISBN 9789004546332
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004548671_012

Homer, Aristotle, and the nature of compassion

Author(s): Douglas Cairns
Published in: Barmherzigkeit: Das Mitgefühl im Brennpunkt von Religion und Ethik Herausgegeben von Roderich Barth, Ute E. Eisen und Martin Fritz in Zusammenarbeit mit Thomas Neumann, 2023, Page(s) 11-36, ISBN 9783161600869
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-162253-3

Conference proceedings (2)

Nativism vs. class denigration: Athenian autochthony between exclusion and inclusion

Author(s): Canevaro, Mirko
Published in: Class and Classics: Subalterns and the Production of Classical Culture.Bellomo, M., Cimino, A. M., Saldutti, V. & E. Z. (eds.), 2024
Publisher: De Gruyter

Greek subjective rights? Justice, legal discourse, and legal institutions

Author(s): Canevaro, M., Rocchi, L
Published in: The Cambridge History of Rights. Vol. 1: The Ancient World, Issue 1, 2024
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Other (2)

L’hybris degli oppressi: Onore e controllo sociale nel mondo greco (e nel nostro)

Author(s): Canevaro, M
Published in: Rivista di Filologia e Istruzione Classica, Issue 152, 2024
Publisher: Rivista di Filologia e Istruzione Classica

Review, E. Stein-Hölkeskamp, K.-J. Hölkeskamp, Ethos – Ehre – Exzellenz: Antike Eliten im Vergleich (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2018)

Author(s): Douglas Cairns
Published in: sehepunkte, Issue 18.12, 2018
Publisher: sehepunkte

Monographic books (1)

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics

Author(s): Prof. Douglas Cairns
Published in: The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2019, ISBN 9780-199381135
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.8180