Kakos : : badness and anti-value in classical antiquity /

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

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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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.
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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.

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