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No Regrets - Remorse in Classical Antiquity (Hardcover)
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No Regrets - Remorse in Classical Antiquity (Hardcover)
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No Regrets: Remorse in Classical Antiquity is the first sustained
study examining the circumstances under which the emotions of
remorse and regret were manifested in Greek and Roman public life.
Despite a still-common notion that remorse is a modern,
monotheistic emotion, it argues that remorse did in fact exist in
pre-Christian antiquity. By discussing the standard lexical
denotations of remorse, Fulkerson shows how its parameters were
rather different from its modern counterpart. Remorse in the
ancient world was normally not expressed by high-status
individuals, but by their inferiors, notably women, the young, and
subjects of tyrants, nor was it redemptive, but often served to
show defect of character. Through a series of examples, especially
poetic, historical, and philosophical texts, this book demonstrates
this was so because of the very high value placed on consistency of
character in the ancient world. High-status men, in particular,
faced constant challenges to their position, and maintaining at
least the appearance of uniformity was essential to their
successful functioning. The redemptive aspects of remorse, of
learning from one's mistakes, were thus nearly absent in the
ancient world.
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