The Concept of Happiness and Joy in Ancient Literature

Abstract

This work is dedicated to the concept of happiness and joy in in works of ancient literature. The study was conducted on the basis analysis of the materials of the discipline "World Literature". As a result, mutual a person's actions with the world add up his ideas about the world, form some model of the world is created, which in philosophical and linguistic literature rature is called the picture of the world. In this picture of the world, we will consider concept of happiness and joy in the ancient world. Happiness explores constitutive foundations of happiness and joy as significant phenomena of the ancient tradition in the context of identifying the originality of the ancient type of cultural and historical subjectivity.