Title Emotion, restraint, and community in ancient Rome / Robert A. Kaster

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 245 pages) Series Classical culture and society Classical culture and society. Contents Between respect and shame: verecundia and the art of social worry -- Fifty ways to feel your pudor -- The structure of paenitentia and the egoism of regret -- Invidia is one thing, invidia quite another -- The dynamics of fastidium and the ideology of disgust -- Being "wholly" Roman Summary "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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Latin literature -- History and criticism Emotions in literature. Literature and society -- Rome Ethics, Ancient, in literature. Self-control in literature. Upper class in literature. Communities in literature. Upper class -- Rome TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. Communities in literature Emotions in literature Ethics, Ancient, in literature Latin literature Literature Literature and society Self-control in literature Upper class Upper class in literature Gefühl Oberschicht Soziale Identität Emoties. Culturele waarden. Ethiek. Romeinse oudheid. Sociale aspecten. SUBJECT Rome -- In literature Subject Rome (Empire) Römisches Reich Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780198032274 0198032277 9780199789283 0199789282 9781423762195 1423762193

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