The ancient emotion of disgust / Edited by Donald Lateiner and Dimos Spatharas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lateiner, Donald, editor.

Spatharas, Dēmos G., editor.

Series:

Emotions of the past

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aversion in literature.

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

Aversion--History--To 500.

Aversion.

History.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 320 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Disgust is an essential human emotion, relatively neglected even in recent scholarship taking the "emotional turn." Fifteen essays by historians and literary scholars examine disgust in theory and practice. Topics range from medicine, drama, oratory, historiography, fiction, biography, to the status of witches, eunuch priests, and theatrical professionals."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introductory: theory and practice of an ambivalent emotion

Introduction: ancient and modern modes of understanding and manipulating disgust / Donald Lateiner ; Dimos Spatharas

Part I. Hellenic

Empathy and the limits of disgust in the Hippocratic corpus / George Kazantzidis

Moral disgust in Sophocles' Philoctetes / Emily Allen-Hornblower

Disgust and delight: the polysemous exclamation aiboi in Attic Comedy / Daniel Levine

Demosthenes and the use of disgust / Nick Fisher

Sex, politics and disgust in Aeschines' Against Timarchus / Dimos Spatharas

Beauty in suffering: disgust in Nicander's Theriaca / Floris Overduin

Part II. Roman and Greek Imperial

Not tonight, dear, I'm feeling a little /pig/ / Robert Kaster

Beyond disgust: the politics of fastidium in Livy's AUC / Alison Haimson-Lushkov

Witches, disgust, and anti-abortion propaganda in Imperial Rome / Debbie Felton

Evoking disgust in the Latin novels of Petronius and Apuleius / Donald Lateiner

Obscena galli praesentia: dehumanizing Cybele's eunuch priests through disgust / Marika Rauhala

Monstrum in fronte, monstrum in animo?: sublate disgust and pharmakos logic in the Aesopic vitae / Tom Hawkins

Smelly bodies on stage: disgusting actors of the Roman imperial period / Mali Skotheim.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Ancient emotion of disgust

ISBN:

9780190604110

0190604115

OCLC:

953805742

Publisher Number:

99970191210