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The angry emotions, and the problems they presented, were an ancient Greek preoccupation from Homer to late antiquity. From the first lines of the Iliad to the church fathers of the fourth century A.D., the control or elimination of rage was an obsessive concern. From the Greek world it passed to the Romans.
Drawing on a wide range of ancient texts, and on recent work in anthropology and psychology, Restraining Rage explains the rise and persistence of this concern. W. V. Harris shows that the discourse of anger-control was of crucial importance in several different spheres, in politics--both republican and monarchical--in the family, and in the slave economy. He suggests that it played a special role in maintaining male domination over women. He explores the working out of these themes in Attic tragedy, in the great Greek historians, in Aristotle and the Hellenistic philosophers, and in many other kinds of texts.
From the time of Plato onward, educated Greeks developed a strong conscious interest in their own psychic health. Emotional control was part of this. Harris offers a new theory to explain this interest, and a history of the anger-therapy that derived from it. He ends by suggesting some contemporary lessons that can be drawn from the Greek and Roman experience.
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William V. Harris is Shepherd Professor of History at Columbia University and Director of the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean.
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In this comprehensive exploration of anger and self-understanding in the classical world, Harris (Columbia Univ.; Ancient Literacy) endeavors to show that ancient discourses on anger control were responses to political and social conditions. Since the Iliad, the oldest work in Western literature, has as its theme the anger of Achilles, Harris has astutely hit upon a fascinating theme. Following a cogent effort to reconcile ancient and modern terminology, Harris catalogs the authors who wrote treatises on anger control. He then attempts to find the political elements that inspired so much writing on the subject. Looking through a lens defined by anger and rage, Harris examines the philosophies of Aristotle, Plato, and Seneca and the histories of Polybius and Plutarch, among others. This includes examining the control of anger in light of the patriarchal family structure and issues of civility in the volatile relationship of slaves and masters. He concludes by pursuing the evolution of these thoughts in the early Christian traditions. Highly recommended for faculty and graduate students of classical antiquity. Clay Williams, Hunter Coll., New York
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