Ancient Emotion of Disgust

About the author

Donald Lateiner is an author, editor, and the Professor of Humanities in Classics, Emeritus at Ohio Wesleyan University. He has published numerous works on Classical antiquity.

Dimos Spatharas is Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Crete. He has an extensive background in study and translation of Ancient Greek history and culture.

Summary

Disgust is an essential human emotion that has remained mostly neglected, even in modern, "emotional turn" scholarship.

Additional text

In the introduction, Lateiner and Spatharas ground the topic and the critical debates, so the volume as a whole is accessible ... The volume is directed toward scholars of classics and ancient history and those interested in the psychology and philosophy of emotions. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, faculty.

Product details

• Authors: Donald (Emeritus Professor of Humanities Lateiner
• Assisted by: Donald (Emeritus Professor of Humanities in Classics Lateiner (Editor), Lateiner Donald (Editor), Dimos (Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek Literature Spatharas (Editor), Spatharas Dimos (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2016
• EAN: 9780190604110
• ISBN: 978-0-19-060411-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Emotions of the Past
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, Cultural Studies, HISTORY / Ancient / General, RELIGION / History, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, RELIGION / Psychology of Religion, Psychology: emotions, History of Religion, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500