The ancient emotion of disgust / Edited by Donald Lateiner and Dimos Spatharas.
The ancient emotion of disgust / Edited by Donald Lateiner and Dimos Spatharas.
The ancient emotion of disgust / Edited by Donald Lateiner and Dimos Spatharas.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]
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G 2017/5746
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English
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xiii, 320 pages ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: ancient and modern modes of understanding and manipulating disgust / Donald Lateiner and Dimos Spatharas -- Part I. Hellenic: 1. Empathy and the limits of disgust in the Hippocratic corpus / George Kazantzidis ; 2. Moral disgust in Sophocles' Philoctetes / Emily Allen-Hornblower ; 3. D...
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]
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England
Date Published
[2017]
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Summary
"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 profe...
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The ancient emotion of disgust / Edited by Donald Lateiner and Dimos Spatharas.
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Emotions of the past
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-300) and indexes.
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©2017
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G 2017/5746
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74VKVgyEZe7A
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVgyEZe7A
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ISBN
0190604115 (hardback)
9780190604110 (hardback)
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880.9353
MMS ID
991024148716802626
