Ancient Anger
Subtitle: Perspectives from Homer to Galen (Yale Classical Studies)
Contributors: Susanna Braund (Editor); Glenn W. Most (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 9, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780521826259
Subjects: Anthropology; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Psychology; Literary Criticism; General; Anger; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Greece; Ancient - General; Ancient and Classical; Literary Collections / Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Anger in literature; Classical literature; History and criticism
First sentence: To study the emotional language of another culture is to enter into the most significant questions raised by the study of emotion, since it raises the fundamental issues of the universality or cultural specificity of the emotions and of the contribution made by linguistic labels and categories to the construction of emotions as cultural phenomena.