Emotion, Restraint, And Community In Ancient Rome (Classical Culture And Society) - Brossura

Kaster, Robert

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ISBN 10: 0195336070 ISBN 13: 9780195336078

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2007

Riassunto

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 will be 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 symbolic expression (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 w hich 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 of displeasure that shaped society in constructive ways, the book casts new light both on the Romans and on cross-cultural understanding of emotions.

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Recensione

Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome is one of those scintillating books that tell us something about both the Romans and ourselves.... Kaster is a marvellous scholar at the top of his form. (Times Literary Supplement)

L'autore

Robert Kaster is a Professor of Classics and Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin at Princeton University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195336070
• ISBN 13: 9780195336078
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 258
• Contatto del produttore: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italia