Emotion, Restraint and Community in Ancient Rome (Classical Culture and Society) (Paperback)
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Short Description for Emotion, Restraint and Community in Ancient Rome Emotion, Restraint, and Community examines the ways in which 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 c...
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Published: 08 November 2007
- Format: Paperback 258 pages
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- Categories: Linguistics | Psychology | European History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Social & Cultural History
- ISBN 13: 9780195336078 ISBN 10: 0195336070
- Sales rank: 1,050,967
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Full description for Emotion, Restraint and Community in Ancient Rome
Emotion, Restraint, and Community examines the ways in which 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.
