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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 December 2009
      07 August 1997
      ISBN:
      9780511586163
      9780521473910
      9780521030908
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511586163
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 280 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.417kg, 280 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Classical Philosophy, Classical Literature, Philosophy
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    Essays by an international team of scholars in Latin literature and ancient philosophy explore the understanding of emotions (or 'passions') in Roman thought and literature. Building on work on Hellenistic theories of emotion and on philosophy as therapy, they look closely at the interface between ancient philosophy (especially Stoic and Epicurean), rhetorical theory, conventional Roman thinking and literary portrayal. There are searching studies of the emotional thought-world of a range of writers including Catullus, Cicero, Virgil, Seneca, Statius, Tacitus and Juvenal. Issues of debate such as the ethical colour of Aeneas's angry killing of Turnus at the end of the Aeneid are placed in a broad and illuminating perspective. Written in clear and non-technical language, with Greek and Latin translated, the volume opens up a fascinating area on the borders of philosophy and literature.

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    "...essays in this volume-such as those on Seneca, Tacitus, Statius, and Roman rhetoric-...open up some valuable perspectives on the Aeneid . Karl Galinsky, Vergilius

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