Kakos : : badness and anti-value in classical antiquity / / edited by Ineke Sluiter and Ralph M. Rosen.

• TeilnehmendeR: Rosen, Ralph Mark.; Sluiter, I.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2008.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 307.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (524 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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 perspectives –historical, literary, legal and philosophical. What makes someone into a prototypically ‘bad’ citizen? Or an abomination of a scholar? What is the relationship between ugliness and value? How do icons of sexual perversion, monstruous emperors and detestable habits function in philosophical and rhetorical prose? The book illuminates the many rhetorical manifestations of the concept of ‘badness’ in classical antiquity in a variety of domains.

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.