Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lateiner, Donald
• Spatharas, Dēmos G.

Description

xiii, 320 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"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, biography, to the status of witches, eunuch priests, and theatrical professionals."--

Series Statement

Emotions of the past

Uniform Title

Emotions of the past.

Subjects

• Aversion > History > To 500
• Aversion in literature
• Classical literature > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-300) and indexes.

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.

Call Number

JFE 16-13260

ISBN

• 9780190604110
• 0190604115
• 9780190604134
• 0190604131

LCCN

2016006042

OCLC

953805742

Title

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

Publisher

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Emotions of the past

Emotions of the past.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-300) and indexes.

Added Author

Lateiner, Donald, editor.

Spatharas, Dēmos G., editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Ancient emotion of disgust Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2016 9780190604127

Research Call Number

JFE 16-13260