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Record Nr.

UNISA996248125203316

Autore

Harris William V (William Vernon)

Titolo

Restraining rage : the ideology of anger control in classical antiquity / / William V. Harris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2001

ISBN

0-674-03835-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 468 p. )

Classificazione

NH 5250

Disciplina

152.4/7/0938

Soggetti

Anger - Greece - History

Anger - Rome - History

Civilization, Classical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-456) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- I. Approaches -- 1. Striving for Anger Control -- 2. Science and Feelings -- 3. The Greek and Latin Terminology -- 4. The Minds of Ancient Authors -- 5. A Tradition of Self-Control -- 6. Philosophies of Restraining Rage -- II. Anger in Society and in the State -- 7. The Heroes and the Archaic State -- 8. Living Together in the Classical Polis -- 9. The Roman Version -- 10. Restraining the Angry Ruler -- 11. A Thesis about Women and Anger -- III. Intimate Rage -- 12. Family and Friends -- 13. Slavery -- IV. Anger and the Invention of Psychic Health -- 14. Anger as a Sickness of the Soul in Classical Greece -- 15. Can You Cure Emotions? Hellenistic and Roman Anger Therapy -- 16. From Sickness to Sin: Early Christianity and Anger -- 17. Retrospect and Prospect -- Bibliography -- Index