Efforts to identify in the expression “being moved” a new emotion have found a hospitable environment in the recent turn to the body in emotion and cognitive studies, exemplified herein affect theory, with a particular focus on the effects of music. Although classical Greek and Latin had comparable expressions, however, they did not single out a specific emotion. Given that music played an important role in ancient educational theories, and was imagined as having arousing powerful reactions, this might seem a curious absence. The reason, at least in part, maybe the strong cognitive conception of emotions characteristic of classical theories. But this should not discourage the search for emotions that are not included in the ancient canons.

最近在情绪和认知研究中转向身体，在“被感动”这一表达中识别一种新情绪的努力已经找到了一个好客的环境，这里举例说明了影响理论，特别关注音乐的影响。尽管古典希腊语和拉丁语的表达方式具有可比性，但它们并没有挑出特定的情感。鉴于音乐在古代教育理论中扮演着重要的角色，并被想象成会引起强烈的反应，这似乎是一种奇怪的缺席。至少部分原因可能是古典理论对情绪的强烈认知概念。但这不应该阻止对未包含在古代经典中的情感的探索。