The angry emotions, and the problems they presented, were an
ancient Greek preoccupation from Homer to late antiquity. From the
first lines of the "Iliad" to the church fathers of the fourth
century A.D., the control or elimination of rage was an obsessive
concern. From the Greek world it passed to the Romans.
Drawing on a wide range of ancient texts, and on recent work in
anthropology and psychology, "Restraining Rage" explains the rise
and persistence of this concern. W. V. Harris shows that the
discourse of anger-control was of crucial importance in several
different spheres, in politics--both republican and monarchical--in
the family, and in the slave economy. He suggests that it played a
special role in maintaining male domination over women. He explores
the working out of these themes in Attic tragedy, in the great
Greek historians, in Aristotle and the Hellenistic philosophers,
and in many other kinds of texts.
From the time of Plato onward, educated Greeks developed a
strong conscious interest in their own psychic health. Emotional
control was part of this. Harris offers a new theory to explain
this interest, and a history of the anger-therapy that derived from
it. He ends by suggesting some contemporary lessons that can be
drawn from the Greek and Roman experience.
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