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Book SynopsisAnger is found everywhere in the ancient world, starting with the very first word of the Iliad and continuing through all literary genres and every aspect of public and private life. This volume brings together several significant studies on literary, philosophical, medical and political aspects of ancient anger.
Trade Review'… an interesting range of further perspectives … This well-produced book succeeds in treating anger as a topic that can open vistas on ancient thinking about psychology, the body, character, social interaction, gender, and the relationship of humans to models of both animal and divine behaviour … The volume is a desirable purchase for all good university libraries.' The Journal of Classics Teaching
Table of ContentsNotes on contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction Susanna Braund and Glenn W. Most; 1. Ethics, ethology, terminology: Iliadic anger and the cross-cultural study of emotion D. L. Cairns; 2. Anger and pity in Homer's Iliad Glenn W. Most; 3. Angry bees, wasps and jurors: the symbolic politics of orge in Athens D. S. Allen; 4. Aristotle on anger and the emotions: the strategies of status David Konstan; 5. The rage of women W. V. Harris; 6. Thumos as masculine ideal and social pathology in ancient Greek magical spells Christopher A. Faraone; 7. Anger and gender in Chariton's Chaereas and Callirhoe J. H. D. Scourfield; 8. 'Your mother nursed you with bile': anger in babies and small children Ann Ellis Hanson; 9. Reactive and objective attitudes: anger in Virgil's Aeneid and Hellenistic philosophy Christopher Gill; 10. The angry poet and the angry gods: problems of theodicy in Lucan's epic of defeat Elaine Fantham; 11. An ABC of epic ira: anger, beasts and cannibalism Susanna Braund and Giles Gilbert; References; Index of passages cited; Index of proper names; Index of topics.
