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Restraining Rage
William Vernon Harris
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Description for Restraining Rage
paperback. The angry emotions, and the problems they presented, were an ancient Greek preoccupation from Homer to late antiquity. The control or elimination of rage was an obsessive concern. From the Greek world it passed to the Romans. This work explains the rise and persistence of this concern. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; JMM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 146 x 32. Weight in Grams: 685.
The angry emotions, and the problems they presented, were an ancient Greek preoccupation from Homer to late antiquity. From the first lines of the Iliad to the church fathers of the fourth century A.D., the control or elimination of rage was an obsessive concern. From the Greek world it passed to the Romans.
Drawing on a wide range of ancient texts, and on recent work in anthropology and psychology, Restraining Rage explains the rise and persistence of this concern. W. V. Harris shows that the discourse of anger-control was of crucial importance in several different spheres, in politics--both republican ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674013865
SKU
V9780674013865
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About William Vernon Harris
William V. Harris is Shepherd Professor of History at Columbia University and Director of the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean.
Reviews for Restraining Rage
Harris is known for ground-breaking books on Roman imperialism and on literacy in the ancient world. His new book, a vastly ambitious attempt to cover nearly every aspect of anger in antiquity from Homer to early Christianity, breaks fresh ground again.
M. F. Burnyeat
London Review of Books
Harris’s thoughtful, massively documented book is a major contribution ... Read more
M. F. Burnyeat
London Review of Books
Harris’s thoughtful, massively documented book is a major contribution ... Read more