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Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome

By Kaster, Robert A.

Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome

By Kaster, Robert A.

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Classical Culture and Society (Series Editors: Joseph A. Farrell, University of Pennsylvania, and Ian Morris, Stanford University) is a new series from Oxford that emphasizes innovative, imaginative scholarship by leading scholars in the field of ancient culture. Among the topics covered will be the historical and cultural background of Greek and Roman literary texts; the production and reception of cultural artifacts; the economic basis of culture; the history of ideas, values, and concepts; and the relationship between politics and/or social practice and ancient forms of symbolic expression (religion, art, language, and ritual, among others). Interdisciplinary approaches and original, broad-ranging research form the backbone of this series, which will serve classicists as well as appealing to scholars and educated readers in related fields. Emotion, Restraint, and Community examines the ways in which emotions, and talk about emotions, interacted with the ethics of the Roman upper classes in the late Republic and early Empire. By considering how various Roman forms of fear, dismay, indignation, and revulsion created an economy of displeasure that shaped society in constructive ways, the book casts new light both on the Romans and on cross-cultural understanding of emotions.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
258
Release Date:
2005-07-21
Publication Date:
2005-06-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0195140788
ISBN13:
9780195140781
Weight:
555 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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