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Emotion, restraint, and community in ancient Rome /
"Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome is an essay in cultural psychology. By examining the ways in which emotions, and talk about emotions, reinforce cultural norms, it aims to understand the interplay between the emotions and the ethics of the Roman upper classes in the late Repub...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Classical culture and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome is an essay in cultural psychology. By examining the ways in which emotions, and talk about emotions, reinforce cultural norms, it aims to understand the interplay between the emotions and the ethics of the Roman upper classes in the late Republic and early Empire. How (in the Roman view) is virtuous behavior shaped by the emotions? How in particular do various Roman forms of fear, dismay, indignation, and revulsion support or constrain ethically significant behavior? How do the domains of these emotions - what they are "about"--Intersect, overlap, or complement each other? How does their interaction create an economy of displeasure that aims to shape society in constructive ways? And - since the Romans' language of emotions is not our own - how can we answer any of these questions without imposing upon the Romans our own notions of what a given emotion is? In offering answers to all these questions the book casts new light both on the Romans and on cross-cultural understanding of emotions."--Jacket. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 245 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198032274 0198032277 9780199789283 0199789282 9781423762195 1423762193 |