The ancient emotion of disgust Introductory: theory and practice of an ambivalent emotion Introduction: ancient and modern modes of understanding and manipulating disgust Donald Lateiner ; Dimos Spatharas Part I. Hellenic Empathy and the limits of disgust in the Hippocratic corpus George Kazantzidis Moral disgust in Sophocles Philoctetes Emily Allen Hornblower Disgust and delight: the polysemous exclamation aiboi in Attic Comedy Daniel Levine Demosthenes and the use of disgust Nick Fisher Sex politics and disgust in Aeschines Against Timarchus Dimos Spatharas Beauty in suffering: disgust in Nicanders Theriaca Floris Overduin Part II. Roman and Greek Imperial Not tonight dear Im feeling a little pig Robert Kaster Beyond disgust: the politics of fastidium in Livys AUC Alison Haimson Lushkov Witches disgust and anti abortion propaganda in Imperial Rome Debbie Felton Evoking disgust in the Latin novels of Petronius and Apuleius Donald Lateiner Obscena galli praesentia: dehumanizing Cybeles eunuch priests through disgust Marika Rauhala Monstrum in fronte monstrum in animo: sublate disgust and pharmakos logic in the Aesopic vitae Tom Hawkins Smelly bodies on stage: disgusting actors of the Roman imperial period Mali Skotheim Disgust is an essential human emotion relatively neglected even in recent scholarship taking the emotional turn. Fifteen essays by historians and literary scholars examine disgust in theory and practice. Topics range from medicine drama oratory historiography fiction biography to the status of witches eunuch priests and theatrical professionals.