The Passions in Roman Thought and Literature

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Preface Conventions Introduction: about this volume Susanna Morton Braund and Christopher Gill Introduction: the emotions in Greco-Roman philosophy Christopher Gill 1. Epicurean anger D. P. Fowler 2. Cicero and the expression of grief Andrew Erskine 3. The subjugaton of grief in Seneca's Epistles Marcus Wilson 4. A passion unconsoled? Grief and anger in Juvenal Satire 13 Susanna Morton Braund 5. Passion, reason and knowledge in Seneca's tragedies Alessandro Schiesaro 6. Imagination and the arousal of the emotions in Greco-Roman rhetoric Ruth Webb 7. Pity, fear and the historical audience: Tacitus on the fall of Vitellius D. S. Levene 8. All in the mind: sickness in Catullus 76 Joan Booth 9. Ferox uirtus: anger in Virgil's Aeneid M. R. Wright 10. 'Envy and fear the begetter of hate': Statius' Thebaid and the genesis of hatred Elaine Fantham 11. Passion as madness in Roman poetry Christopher Gill Bibliography Index of ancient passages General index.

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