Emotion, Restraint, And Community In Ancient Rome

Zusatztext Kaster's recent monograph is a rich, stimulating investigation of a particular set of Roman emotions. Informationen zum Autor Robert A. Kaster is Professor of Classics and Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin at Princeton University. Klappentext 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 willbe 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 symbolicexpression (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 ofdispleasure that shaped society in constructive ways, the book casts new light both on the Romans and on cross-cultural understanding of emotions. Zusammenfassung 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. This book considers how various Roman forms of fear, dismay, indignation, and revulsion created an economy of displeasure that shaped society in constructive ways.

Product details

• Authors: Robert A Kaster, Robert A. Kaster, Robert A. (Department of Classics Kaster, Kaster Robert A.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.07.2005
• EAN: 9780195140781
• ISBN: 978-0-19-514078-1
• No. of pages: 245
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Classical Culture and Society; Classical Culture and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Social History, Psychology, Social & cultural history, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Social and cultural history, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Ancient History, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval