Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Part I. Approaches

1. Striving for Anger Control

2. Science and Feelings

3. The Greek and Latin Terminology

4. The Minds of Ancient Authors

5. A Tradition of Self-Control

6. Philosophies of Restraining Rage

Appendix: Treatises on the Emotions and on Anger

Part II. Anger in Society and in the State

7. The Heroes and the Archaic State

8. Living Together in the Classical Polis

9. The Roman Version

10. Restraining the Angry Ruler

11. A Thesis about Women and Anger

Part III. Intimate Rage

12. Family and Friends

13. Slavery

Part IV. Anger and the Invention of Psychic Health

14. Anger as a Sickness of the Soul in Classical Greece

15. Can You Cure Emotions? Hellenistic and Roman Anger Therapy

16. From Sickness to Sin: Early Christianity and Anger

17. Retrospect and Prospect

Bibliography

Index