Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Conventions
- Introduction
- 1 Epicurean anger
- 2 Cicero and the expression of grief
- 3 The subjugation of grief in Seneca's Epistles
- 4 A passion unconsoled? Grief and anger in Juvenal Satire 13
- 5 Passion, reason and knowledge in Seneca's tragedies
- 6 Imagination and the arousal of the emotions in Greco-Roman rhetoric
- 7 Pity, fear and the historical audience: Tacitus on the fall of Vitellius
- 8 All in the mind: sickness in Catullus 76
- 9 Ferox uirtus: anger in Virgil's Aeneid
- 10 ‘Envy and fear the begetter of hate’: Statius' Thebaid and the genesis of hatred
- 11 Passion as madness in Roman poetry
- Bibliography
- Index of ancient passages
- General index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Conventions
- Introduction
- 1 Epicurean anger
- 2 Cicero and the expression of grief
- 3 The subjugation of grief in Seneca's Epistles
- 4 A passion unconsoled? Grief and anger in Juvenal Satire 13
- 5 Passion, reason and knowledge in Seneca's tragedies
- 6 Imagination and the arousal of the emotions in Greco-Roman rhetoric
- 7 Pity, fear and the historical audience: Tacitus on the fall of Vitellius
- 8 All in the mind: sickness in Catullus 76
- 9 Ferox uirtus: anger in Virgil's Aeneid
- 10 ‘Envy and fear the begetter of hate’: Statius' Thebaid and the genesis of hatred
- 11 Passion as madness in Roman poetry
- Bibliography
- Index of ancient passages
- General index
Summary
This volume of new essays is based on a conference on ‘Understanding the Passions in Roman Literature and Thought’ held at the University of Exeter in July 1992. Eight of the chapters are based on papers given at the conference; three were written specifically for the volume. We would like to thank the British Academy, the Classical Association, the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, and the University of Exeter for financial assistance to the conference and to the costs of preparing this book. We are grateful to all those who participated in this conference, as well as to those contributing to the volume; also to Pauline Hire at the Cambridge University Press for her guidance and support, and to the two readers for the Press. Special thanks are due to Kerensa Pearson for her characteristically meticulous secretarial work in preparing the volume for publication.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997