Emotion, Restraint, and Community examines the ways in which emotions, and talk about emotions, interacted with the ethics of the Roman upper classes in the late Republic and early Empire. By considering how various Roman forms of fear, dismay, indignation, and revulsion created an economy of displeasure that shaped society in constructive ways, the book casts new light both on the Romans and on cross-cultural understanding of emotions.
Robert A. Kaster is Professor of Classics and Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin at Princeton University.
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Kaster's recent monograph is a rich, stimulating investigation of a particular set of Roman emotions.
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Preface Introduction 1.: Between Respect and Shame: Verecundia and the Art of Social Worry 2.: Fifty Ways to Feel your Pudor 3.: The Structure of Paenitentia and the Egoism of Regret 4.: Invidia is One Thing, Invidia Quite Another 5.: The Dynamics of Fastidium and the Ideology of Disgust 6.: Epilogue --Being "Wholly Roman"
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