Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Classical Culture and Society
Release date:	August 2005
First published:	July 2005
Authors:	Robert A. Kaster (Department of Classics, Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature)
Dimensions:	242 x 164 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-514078-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
LSN:	0-19-514078-8
Barcode:	9780195140781

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