The ancient emotion of disgust

The ancient emotion of disgust / edited by Donald Lateiner and Dimos Spatharas.

"Disgust is an essential human emotion, relatively neglected even in recent scholarship taking the "emotional turn." Fifteen essays by historians and literary scholars examine disgust in theory and practice. Topics range from medicine, drama, oratory, historiography, fiction, biograph...

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Other Authors: Lateiner, Donald (Editor), Spatharas, Dēmos G. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Series:Emotions of the past.
Subjects:
Aversion in literature.
Classical literature > History and criticism.
Aversion > History > To 500.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: ancient and modern modes of understanding and manipulating disgust / Donald Lateiner and Dimos Spatharas
  • Part I. Hellenic: 1. Empathy and the limits of disgust in the Hippocratic corpus / George Kazantzidis ; 2. Moral disgust in Sophocles' Philoctetes / Emily Allen-Hornblower ; 3. Disgust and delight: the polysemous exclamation aiboi in Attic Comedy / Daniel B. Levine ; 4. Demosthenes and the use of disgust / Nick Fisher ; 5. Sex, politics and disgust in Aeschines' Against Timarchus / Dimos Spatharas ; 6. Beauty in suffering: disgust in Nicander's Theriaca / Floris Overduin
  • Part II. Roman and Greek Imperial: 7. Not tonight, dear, I'm feeling a little pig- / Robert A/ Kaster ; 8. Beyond disgust: the politics of fastidium in Livy's Ab Urbe Condita / Alison Haimson-Lushkov ; 9. Witches, disgust, and anti-abortion propaganda in Imperial Rome / Debbie Felton ; 10. Evoking disgust in the Latin novels of Petronius and Apuleius / Donald Lateiner ; 11. Obscena galli praesentia: dehumanizing Cybele's eunuch priests through disgust / Marika Rauhala ; 12. Monstrum in fronte, monstrum in animo?: sublate disgust and pharmakos logic in the Aesopic vitae / Tom Hawkins ; 13. Smelly bodies on stage: disgusting actors of the Roman imperial period / Mali Skotheim.

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