{"product_id":"passions-in-roman-thought-li-9780521030908","title":"Passions in Roman Thought  Li","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEssays explore the understanding of emotions (or 'passions') in Roman thought and literature from a wide range of Latin prose and verse writers. These searching studies of key literary and intellectual texts are all in clear and non-technical language, with Greek and Latin translated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...essays in this volume-such as those on Seneca, Tacitus, Statius, and Roman rhetoric-...open up some valuable perspectives on the  Aeneid .    Karl Galinsky, Vergilius\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface; Conventions; Introduction: about this volume Susanna Morton Braund and Christopher Gill; Introduction: the emotions in Greco-Roman philosophy Christopher Gill; 1. Epicurean anger D. P. Fowler; 2. Cicero and the expression of grief Andrew Erskine; 3. The subjugaton of grief in Seneca's Epistles Marcus Wilson; 4. A passion unconsoled? Grief and anger in Juvenal Satire 13 Susanna Morton Braund; 5. Passion, reason and knowledge in Seneca's tragedies Alessandro Schiesaro; 6. Imagination and the arousal of the emotions in Greco-Roman rhetoric Ruth Webb; 7. Pity, fear and the historical audience: Tacitus on the fall of Vitellius D. S. Levene; 8. All in the mind: sickness in Catullus 76 Joan Booth; 9. Ferox uirtus: anger in Virgil's Aeneid M. R. Wright; 10. 'Envy and fear the begetter of hate': Statius' Thebaid and the genesis of hatred Elaine Fantham; 11. Passion as madness in Roman poetry Christopher Gill; Bibliography; Index of ancient passages; General index.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767574692183,"sku":"9780521030908","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780521030908.jpg?v=1758713832","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/passions-in-roman-thought-li-9780521030908","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}