Ebook: The Ancient Emotion of Disgust
Author: Lateiner Donald, Spatharas Demos G
- Tags: Aversion in literature, Classical literature, Aversion, History To 1500
- Series: Emotions of the past
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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This collection of 17 essays by 15 authors features the emotion of disgust as one cutting edge of the study of Greek and Roman antiquity. Individual contributions explore a wide range of topics including the semantics of the emotion both in Greek and Latin literature, its social uses as a means of marginalising individuals or groups of individuals, its role in determining aesthetic judgments and its potentialities Read more...
Abstract: This collection of 17 essays by 15 authors features the emotion of disgust as one cutting edge of the study of Greek and Roman antiquity. Individual contributions explore a wide range of topics including the semantics of the emotion both in Greek and Latin literature, its social uses as a means of marginalising individuals or groups of individuals, its role in determining aesthetic judgments and its potentialities as an elicitor of aesthetic pleasure