Ancient anger : perspectives from Homer to Galen /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Braund, Susanna Morton, Most, Glenn W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Series:Yale classical studies ; v. 32.
Subjects:
Classical literature > History and criticism.
Anger in literature.
Anger > Greece.
Anger > Rome.
Littérature ancienne > Histoire et critique.
Colère dans la littérature.
Colère > Grèce.
Colère > Rome.
Anger
Anger in literature
Classical literature
Greece
Rome (Empire)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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