Ancient Anger
Subtitle: Perspectives from Homer to Galen (Yale Classical Studies)
Contributors: Susanna Braund (Editor); Glenn W. Most (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 14, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780521036429
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Latin; Language; General; Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Literary Collections / Ancient, Classical & Medieval
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.