- 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
Restraining Rage
The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity
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$39.00 • £33.95 • €35.95
ISBN 9780674013865
Publication Date: 03/30/2004
Awards & Accolades
- William V. Harris Is Recipient of the 2007 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award
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