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. Ed(S): Konstan, David; Rutter, Keith - Envy, Spite and Jealousy: The Rivalrous Emotions in Ancient Greece - 9780748616039 - V9780748616039
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Envy, Spite and Jealousy: The Rivalrous Emotions in Ancient Greece

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Description for Envy, Spite and Jealousy: The Rivalrous Emotions in Ancient Greece hardcover. This is the first book devoted to the emotions of rivalry in the classical world taken as a whole. Editor(s): Konstan, David; Rutter, Keith. Series: Edinburgh Leventis Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBG; HPM; JFC; JMM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 686.
Classical Greece was permeated by a spirit of rivalry. Games and sports, theatrical performances, courtroom trials, recitation of poetry, canvassing for public office, war itself - all aspects of life were informed by a competitive ethos. This pioneering book considers how the Greeks viewed, explained, exploited and controlled the emotions that entered into such rivalrous activities, and looks at what the private and public effects were of such feelings as ambition, desire, pride, passion, envy and spite. Among the questions the authors address: How was envy distinguished from emulation? Was rivalry central to democratic politics? What was the relation between ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Edinburgh Leventis Studies
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748616039
SKU
V9780748616039
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About . Ed(S): Konstan, David; Rutter, Keith
David Konstan is the John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. He is a past president of the American Philological Association. His books include Roman Comedy (1983); Simplicius' Commentary on Aristotle Physics 6 (translation, 1987) Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres (1994), Greek Comedy and Ideology ... Read more

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This attractive book which displays an international team of scholars in good form ! deserves to be in every university library. This attractive book which displays an international team of scholars in good form ! deserves to be in every university library.

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