Ancient anger : perspectives from Homer to Galen / edited for the Department of Classics by Susanna Morton Braund and Glenn W. Most.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Braund, Susanna Morton, editor.

Most, Glenn W., editor.

Series:

Yale classical studies ; 32.

Yale classical studies ; 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

Anger in literature.

Anger--Greece.

Anger.

Anger--Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 325 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Anger is found everywhere in the ancient world, starting with the very first word of the Iliad and continuing through all literary genres and every aspect of public and private life. Yet it is only recently, as a variety of disciplines start to devote attention to the history and nature of the emotions, that Classicists, ancient historians and ancient philosophers have begun to study anger in antiquity with the seriousness and attention it deserves. This volume brings together a number of significant studies by authors from different disciplines and countries, on literary, philosophical, medical and political aspects of ancient anger from Homer until the Roman Imperial Period. It studies some of the most important ancient sources and provides a paradigmatic selection of approaches to them, and should stimulate further research on this important subject in a number of fields.

Contents:

Introduction / Susanna Braund and Glenn W. Most

Ethics, ethology, terminology: Iliadic anger and the cross-cultural study of emotion / D.L. Cairns

Anger and pity in Homer's Iliad / Glenn W. Most

Angry bees, wasps, and jurors: the symbolic politics of [orge] in Athens / D.S. Allen

Aristotle on anger and the emotions: the strategies of status / David Konstan

The rage of women / W.V. Harris

Thumos as masculine ideal and social pathology in ancient Greek magical spells / Christopher A. Faraone

Anger and gender in Chariton's Chaereas and Callirhoe / J.H.D. Scourfield

"Your mother nursed you with bile": anger in babies and small children / Ann Ellis Hanson

Reactive and objective attitudes: anger in Virgil's Aeneid and Hellenistic philosophy / Christopher Gill

The angry poet and the angry gods: problems and theodicy in Lucan's epic of defeat / Elaine Fantham

An ABC of epic ira: anger, beasts, and cannibalism / Susanna Braund and Giles Gilbert.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-305) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-14685-2

1-280-43742-1

0-511-18414-X

0-511-16568-4

0-511-16375-4

0-511-31268-7

0-511-48212-4

0-511-16455-6

OCLC:

76944050