Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity

By William V. Harris

Book Overview

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 AD, the control or elimination of rage was an obsessive concern. From the Greek world it passed to the Romans.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674006186
• ISBN13: 9780674006188
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.6" x 9.5"