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Ancient anger : perspectives from Homer to Galen /
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. This volume brings together several significant new studies on literary, philosophical, medical, and political aspect...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Yale classical studies ;
v. 32. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Ethics, ethology, terminology: Iliadic anger and the cross-cultural study of emotion; Chapter 2 Anger and pity in Homer's Iliad; Chapter 3 Angry bees, wasps, and jurors: the symbolic politics of ... in Athens; Chapter 4 Aristotle on anger and the emotions: the strategies of status; Chapter 5 The rage of women; Chapter 6 Thumos as masculine ideal and social pathology in ancient Greek magical spells; Chapter 7 Anger and gender in Chariton's Chaereas and Callirhoe
- Chapter 8 "Your mother nursed you with bile": anger in babies and small childrenChapter 9 Reactive and objective attitudes: anger in Virgil's Aeneid and Hellenistic philosophy; Chapter 10 The angry poet and the angry gods: problems of theodicy in Lucan's epic of defeat; Chapter 11 An ABC of epic ira: anger, beasts, and cannibalism; References; Index of passages cited; Index of proper names; Index of topics