"Disgust is an essential human emotion, relatively neglected even in recent scholarship taking the "emotional turn." Fifteen essays by historians and literary scholars examine disgust in theory and practice. Topics range from medicine, drama,...
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"Disgust is an essential human emotion, relatively neglected even in recent scholarship taking the "emotional turn." Fifteen essays by historians and literary scholars examine disgust in theory and practice. Topics range from medicine, drama, oratory, historiography, fiction, biography, to the status of witches, eunuch priests, and theatrical professionals."-- Introductory: theory and practice of an ambivalent emotion -- Introduction: ancient and modern modes of understanding and manipulating disgust / Donald Lateiner ; Dimos Spatharas -- Part I. Hellenic -- Empathy and the limits of disgust in the Hippocratic corpus / George Kazantzidis -- Moral disgust in Sophocles' Philoctetes / Emily Allen-Hornblower -- Disgust and delight: the polysemous exclamation aiboi in Attic Comedy / Daniel Levine -- Demosthenes and the use of disgust / Nick Fisher -- Sex, politics and disgust in Aeschines' Against Timarchus / Dimos Spatharas -- Beauty in suffering: disgust in Nicander's Theriaca / Floris Overduin -- Part II. Roman and Greek Imperial -- Not tonight, dear, I'm feeling a little /pig/ / Robert Kaster -- Beyond disgust: the politics of fastidium in Livy's AUC / Alison Haimson-Lushkov -- Witches, disgust, and anti-abortion propaganda in Imperial Rome / Debbie Felton -- Evoking disgust in the Latin novels of Petronius and Apuleius / Donald Lateiner -- Obscena galli praesentia: dehumanizing Cybele's eunuch priests through disgust / Marika Rauhala -- Monstrum in fronte, monstrum in animo?: sublate disgust and pharmakos logic in the Aesopic vitae / Tom Hawkins -- Smelly bodies on stage: disgusting actors of the Roman imperial period / Mali Skotheim
"The present volume arose from a panel examining ancient disgust, convened at the Edinburgh 2014 Celtic Conference in Classics ..." (Preface, Seite ix)