| Description |
1 online resource (x, 325 pages) |
| Series |
Yale classical studies ; v. 32 |
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Yale classical studies ; v. 32.
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| 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 |
| 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. This volume brings together several significant new studies on literary, philosophical, medical, and political aspects of ancient anger |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-305) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Classical literature -- History and criticism
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Anger in literature.
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Anger -- Greece
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Anger -- Rome
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Anger
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Anger in literature
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Classical literature
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Greece
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Braund, Susanna Morton.
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Most, Glenn W.
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| ISBN |
0511164556 |
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9780511164552 |
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