Hope for us has a positive connotation. Yet it was criticized in classical antiquity as a distraction from the present moment, as the occasion for irrational an

Compelling treatment of a question pervading literature from antiquity: when is hope a good thing and when is it not?

Although ancient hope has attracted much scholarly attention in the past, this is the first book-length discussion of the topic. The introduction offers a syste

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