Restraining Rage : The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity

by: Harris, W.V.

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The angry emotions, and the problems they presented, were an ancient Greek preoccupation from Homer to late antiquity. From the first lines of the Iliad to the church fathers of the fourth century A.D., the control or elimination of rage was an obsessive concern. From the Greek world it passed to the Romans. Drawing on a wide range of ancient texts, and on recent work in anthropology and psychology, Restraining Rage explains the rise and persistence of this concern. W. V. Harris shows that the discourse of anger-control was of crucial importance in several different spheres, in politics--both republican and monarchical--in the family, and in the slave economy. He suggests that it played a special role in maintaining male domination over women. He explores the working out of these themes in Attic tragedy, in the great Greek historians, in Aristotle and the Hellenistic philosophers, and in many other kinds of texts. From the time of Plato onward, educated Greeks developed a strong conscious interest in their own psychic health. Emotional control was part of this. Harris offers a new theory to explain this interest, and a history of the anger-therapy that derived from it. He ends by suggesting some contemporary lessons that can be drawn from the Greek and Roman experience.

Approaches : Striving for anger control ; Science and feelings ; The Greek and Latin terminology ; The minds of ancient authors ; A tradition of self-control ; Philosophies of restraining rage ; Appendix: Treatises on the emotions and on anger
Anger in society and in the state : The heroes and the archaic state ; Living together in the classical polis ; The Roman version ; Restraining the angry ruler ; A thesis about women and anger ; Family and friends ; Slavery
Anger and the invention of psychic health : Anger as a sickness of the soul in classical Greece ; Can you cure emotions? Hellenistic and Roman anger therapy ; From sickness to sin: early Christianity and anger ; Retrospect and prospect

Subjects:
Anger
Anger Greece History
Anger Rome History
Ärger
Bewältigung
Civilisation ancienne
Civilization, Ancient
Civilization, Classical
Colère
Colère Grèce Histoire
Colère Rome Histoire
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Anger
Greece
History
Klassieke oudheid
Politieke aspecten
Psychotherapie
Rage
Rome
Rome (Empire)
SELF-HELP Anger Management
Sociale aspecten
Woede
anger

Restraining Rage : The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity

by: Harris, W.V.

• ISBN-13: 9780674006188 / 978-0-674-00618-8
• ISBN-03: 0674006186 / 0-674-00618-6
• Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2001

Price: 80,00 EURO

1 copy in stock