Pity Transformed (Classical Inter/faces) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Pity Transformed "Pity Transformed" is an examination of how pity was imagined and expressed in classical antiquity.
Full description- Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Published: 01 April 2013
- Format: Hardback 192 pages
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- Categories: Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval | Cultural Studies | Psychology | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Social & Cultural History | Popular Psychology
- ISBN 13: 9780715629048 ISBN 10: 0715629042
- Sales rank: 768,786
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Full description for Pity Transformed
"Pity Transformed" is an examination of how pity was imagined and expressed in classical antiquity. It pays particular attention to the ways in which the pity of the Greeks and Romans differed from modern ideas. Among the topics investigated in this study are the appeal to pity in courts of law and the connection between pity and desert; the relation between pity and love or intimacy; self-pity; the role of pity in war and its relation to human rights and human dignity; divine pity from paganism to Christianity; and why pity was considered an emotion. This book will lead readers to ponder how the Greeks and Romans were both like and unlike us in this fundamental area of cultural sensibility.
