Kakos : badness and anti-value in classical antiquity /

Kakos : badness and anti-value in classical antiquity /

The fourth in a series that explores cultural and ethical values in Classical Antiquity, this volume examines the negative foils, the anti-values, against which positive value notions are conceptualized and calibrated in Classical Antiquity. Eighteen chapters address this theme from different perspe...

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Other Authors: Rosen, Ralph Mark., Sluiter, I.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston : Brill, 2008.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 307.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

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Values > History.
Values > Greece.
Values > Rome.

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Call Number: BD232 .K26 2008

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Materials /
  • Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter
  • Chapter One. General Introduction /
  • Ineke Sluiter
  • Chapter Two. Generic Ethics And The Problem Of Badness In Pindar /
  • Kathryn Morgan
  • Chapter Three. Ugliness And Value In The Life Of Aesop /
  • Jeremy B. Lefkowitz
  • Chapter Four. Beetle Tracks: Entomology, Scatology And The Discourse Of Abuse /
  • Deborah Steiner
  • Chapter Five. Bad Language In Aristophanes /
  • Ian C. Storey
  • Chapter Six. Badness And Intentionality In Aristophanes Frogs /
  • Ralph M. Rosen
  • Chapter Seven. Imagining Bad Citizenship In Classical Athens: Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae 730-876 /
  • Matthew R. Christ
  • Chapter Eight. The Bad Boyfriend, The Flatterer And The Sykophant: Related Forms Of The Kakos In Democratic Athens /
  • Nick Fisher
  • Chapter Nine. Κακια In Aristotle /
  • J.J. Mulhern
  • Chapter Ten. Pathos Phaulon: Aristotle And The Rhetoric Of Phthonos /
  • Ed Sanders
  • Chapter Eleven. The Disgrace Of Matter In Ancient Aesthetics /
  • James I. Porter
  • Chapter Twelve. With Malice Aforethought: The Ethics Of Malitia On Stage And At Law /
  • Elaine Fantham
  • Chapter Thirteen. The Mind Of An Ass And The Impudence Of A Dog: A Scholar Gone Bad /
  • Cynthia Damon
  • Chapter Fourteen. From Vice To Virtue: The Denigration And Rehabilitation Of Superbia In Ancient Rome /
  • Yelena Baraz
  • Chapter Fifteen. Omnis Malignitas Est Virtuti Contraria: Malignitas As A Term Of Aesthetic Evaluation From Horace To Tacitus Dialogus De Oratoribus /
  • Christopher S. Van Den Berg
  • Chapter Sixteen. The Representation And Role Of Badness In Senecas Moral Teaching: A Case From the Naturales Quaestiones (Nq 1.16) /
  • Florence Limburg
  • Chapter Seventeen. Natures Monster: Caligula As Exemplum In Senecas Dialogues /
  • Amanda Wilcox
  • Chapter Eighteen. Heliogabalus, A Monster On The Roman Throne: The Literary Construction Of A Bad Emperor /
  • Martijn Icks
  • I Index Of Greek Terms /
  • Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter
  • II Index Of Latin Terms /
  • Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter
  • III Index Locorum /
  • Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter
  • IV General Index /
  • Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter.