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Title Kakos : badness and anti-value in classical antiquity / edited by Ineke Sluiter and Ralph M. Rosen
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 514 pages) : illustrations
Series Mnemosyne supplements, 0169-8958 ; volume 307
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 307.
Contents List of Contributors; Chapter 1. General Introduction (Ineke Sluiter); Chapter 2. Generic Ethics and the Problem of Badness in Pindar (Kathryn Morgan); Chapter 3. Ugliness and Value in the Life of Aesop (Jeremy B. Lefkowitz); Chapter 4. Beetle Tracks: Entomology, Scatology and the Discourse of Abuse (Deborah Steiner); Chapter 5. 'Bad' Language in Aristophanes (Ian C. Storey); Chapter 6. Badness and Intentionality in Aristophanes' Frogs (Ralph M. Rosen); Chapter 7. Imagining Bad Citizenship in Classical Athens: Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae 730-876 (Matthew R. Christ)
Summary Part of a series that explores cultural and ethical values in Classical Antiquity, this volume examines the negative foils, the anti-values, against which positive value notions are conceptualized and calibrated in Classical Antiquity. It includes chapters that address this theme from historical, literary, legal, and philosophical perspectives
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Values -- Greece
Values -- Rome
Values -- History
PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
Values
Antike
Das Böse
Ethik
Värdefilosofi -- historia.
Antikens filosofi.
Greece
Rome (Empire)
Griechenland Altertum
Römisches Reich
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Sluiter, I. (Ineke), editor.
Rosen, Ralph Mark, editor.
ISBN 9789047443148
9047443144