Research Catalog

Title

The passions in Roman thought and literature / edited by Susanna Morton Braund and Christopher Gill.

Publication

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Braund, Susanna Morton.
• Gill, Christopher, 1946-

Description

x, 266 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Latin literature > History and criticism
• Emotions in literature
• Philosophy, Ancient
• Rome > In literature

Note

• Based on a conference on "Understanding the passions in Roman literature and thought", held at the University of Exeter, July 1992.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-256) and indexes.

Contents

Epicurean anger / D.P. Fowler -- Cicero and the expression of grief / Andrew Erskine -- The subjugation of grief in Seneca's Epistles / Marcus Wilson -- A passion unconsoled? grief and anger in Juvenal Satire 13 / Susanna Morton Braund -- Passion, reason and knowledge in Seneca's tragedies / Alessandro Schiesaro -- Imagination and the arousal of the emotions in Greco-Roman rhetoric / Ruth Webb -- Pity, fear and the historical audience: Tacitus on the fall of Vitellius / D.S. Levene -- All in the mind: sickness in Catullus 76 / Joan Booth -- Ferox uirtus: anger in Virgil's Aeneid / M.R. Wright --'Envy and fear the begetter of hate': Statius' Thebaid and the genesis of hatred / Elaine Fantham -- Passion as madness in Roman poetry / Christopher Gill.

Call Number

JFE 98-938

ISBN

0521473918 (hardback)

LCCN

96047371

OCLC

35777402

Title

The passions in Roman thought and literature / edited by Susanna Morton Braund and Christopher Gill.

Imprint

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-256) and indexes.

Added Author

Braund, Susanna Morton.

Gill, Christopher, 1946-

Research Call Number

JFE 98-938