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Ancient Anger Perspectives from Homer to Galen

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ISBN-10: 0521036429

ISBN-13: 9780521036429

Edition: 2007

Authors: Susanna Braund, Glenn W. Most

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Anger is found everywhere in the ancient world, from the very first word of the Iliad through all literary genres and every aspect of public and private life. Yet, it is only very recently that classicists, historians, and philosophers have begun to study anger in antiquity. This volume includes significant new studies by authors from different disciplines and countries on the literary, philosophical, medical, and political aspects of ancient anger.
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Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/14/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Susanna Morton Braund is Professor of Classics, Stanford University.

Glenn W. Most has taught at the Universities of Yale, Princeton, Michigan, Siena, Innsbruck, and Heidelberg. Since 2001 he has been Professor of Greek Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, since 1996 he has been a visiting Professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago; recently he has also become an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Ethics, ethology, terminology: Iliadic anger and the cross-cultural study of emotion
Anger and pity in Homer's
Angry bees, wasps and jurors: the symbolic politics of orge in Athens
Aristotle on anger and the emotions: the strategies of status
The rage of women
Thumos as masculine ideal and social pathology in ancient Greek magical spells Christopher
Anger and gender in Chariton's Chaereas
'Your mother nursed you with bile': anger in babies and small children
Reactive and objective attitudes: anger in Virgil's Aeneid and Hellenistic philosophy
The angry poet and the angry gods: problems of theodicy in Lucan's epic of defeat
An ABC of epic ira: anger, beasts and cannibalism Susanna Braund
References
Index of passages cited
Index of proper names
Index of topics