The study of emotions and emotional displays has achieved a
deserved prominence in recent classical scholarship. The emotions
of the classical world can be plumbed to provide a valuable
heuristic tool. Emotions can help us understand key issues of
ancient ethics, ideological assumptions, and normative behaviors,
but, more frequently than not, classical scholars have turned their
attention to "social emotions" requiring practical decisions and
ethical judgments in public and private gatherings. The emotion of
disgust has been unwarrantedly neglected, even though it figures
saliently in many literary genres, such as iambic poetry and
comedy, historiography, and even tragedy and philosophy. This
collection of seventeen essays by fifteen authors features the
emotion of disgust as one cutting edge of the study of Greek and
Roman antiquity. Individual contributions explore a wide range of
topics. These include the semantics of the emotion both in Greek
and Latin literature, its social uses as a means of marginalizing
individuals or groups of individuals, such as politicians judged
deviant or witches, its role in determining aesthetic judgments,
and its potentialities as an elicitor of aesthetic pleasure. The
papers also discuss the vocabulary and uses of disgust in life
(Galli, actors, witches, homosexuals) and in many literary genres:
ancient theater, oratory, satire, poetry, medicine, historiography,
Hellenistic didactic and fable, and the Roman novel. The
Introduction addresses key methodological issues concerning the
nature of the emotion, its cognitive structure, and modern
approaches to it. It also outlines the differences between ancient
and modern disgust and emphasizes the appropriateness of
"projective or second-level disgust" (vilification) as a means of
marginalizing unwanted types of behavior and stigmatizing morally
condemnable categories of individuals. The volume is addressed
first to scholars who work in the field of classics, but, since
texts involving disgust also exhibit significant cultural
variation, the essays will attract the attention of scholars who
work in a wide spectrum of disciplines, including history, social
psychology, philosophy, anthropology, comparative literature, and
cross-cultural studies.
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