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Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Oxford
This book explores the uniquely Roman articulation of pride as a negative emotion and traces its partial rehabilitation that begins in the texts of the Augustan poets at the time of great political change using a combination of a lexical approach and...
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This book explores the uniquely Roman articulation of pride as a negative emotion and traces its partial rehabilitation that begins in the texts of the Augustan poets at the time of great political change using a combination of a lexical approach and a script-based approach that considers the emotion as a process
Cover -- Series -- Reading Roman Pride -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Translations -- Introduction -- Pride and Roman Pride -- Scripts and Words -- Scope -- Structure -- Part I Scripts and Words: General Approaches to Roman Pride -- 1. Semantics -- adrogantia -- fastus -- insolentia -- 2. Stages -- Causes of Pride -- Proud Behaviors -- Reacting to Pride -- 3. The Peculiar Case of the superbia Group -- Conclusion (Part I) -- Part II Scripts: Institution and Place -- 4. Kingship -- The Pretenders -- Spurius Cassius Vecellinus -- Spurius Maelius -- Marcus Manlius Capitolinus -- The Counterexample: Scipio Africanus -- Cicero and Other Kings -- 5. Capua -- Ausonius' urbs nobilis -- Capua as a Rival Capital in Cicero's Agrarian Speeches -- Hannibal, Capua, and the Second Punic War -- Conclusion (Part II) -- Part III Words: The Transformation of superbia -- 6. Vergil's Aeneid, Pride Unsettled -- Troy -- Carthage -- Athletic Victories -- The Iliadic Half -- Turnus and the End -- Tarquinius and Brutus, Agrippa and Augustus -- Appendix: Gods' Lovers, Gods' Helpers, Gods' Human Pets -- 7. The Transformation of Pride in Augustan Poetry -- Triumph and Defeat in Horace, Carmina 1 -- Pride and Love -- Pride and Poetry -- The Late Augustan Aftermath -- 8. Positive Pride in Post-Augustan Literature -- Poetic Pride -- Pride in the Public Sphere -- Pride by Association -- Flavian Epic -- Positive Pride in Pliny the Elder -- Conclusion (Part III) -- Coda: The Triumph of Stoic Virtue -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Works -- Index of Greek and Latin -- General Index
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Oxford University Press, Oxford
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ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan
This book explores the uniquely Roman articulation of pride as a negative emotion and traces its partial rehabilitation that begins in the texts of the Augustan poets at the time of great political change using a combination of a lexical approach and...
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Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
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This book explores the uniquely Roman articulation of pride as a negative emotion and traces its partial rehabilitation that begins in the texts of the Augustan poets at the time of great political change using a combination of a lexical approach and a script-based approach that considers the emotion as a process.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press USA - OSO, Oxford
This book explores the uniquely Roman articulation of pride as a negative emotion and traces its partial rehabilitation that begins in the texts of the Augustan poets at the time of great political change using a combination of a lexical approach and...
more
This book explores the uniquely Roman articulation of pride as a negative emotion and traces its partial rehabilitation that begins in the texts of the Augustan poets at the time of great political change using a combination of a lexical approach and a script-based approach that considers the emotion as a process. Cover -- Series -- Reading Roman Pride -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Translations -- Introduction -- Pride and Roman Pride -- Scripts and Words -- Scope -- Structure -- Part I Scripts and Words: General Approaches to Roman Pride -- 1. Semantics -- adrogantia -- fastus -- insolentia -- 2. Stages -- Causes of Pride -- Proud Behaviors -- Reacting to Pride -- 3. The Peculiar Case of the superbia Group -- Conclusion (Part I) -- Part II Scripts: Institution and Place -- 4. Kingship -- The Pretenders -- Spurius Cassius Vecellinus -- Spurius Maelius -- Marcus Manlius Capitolinus -- The Counterexample: Scipio Africanus -- Cicero and Other Kings -- 5. Capua -- Ausonius' urbs nobilis -- Capua as a Rival Capital in Cicero's Agrarian Speeches -- Hannibal, Capua, and the Second Punic War -- Conclusion (Part II) -- Part III Words: The Transformation of superbia -- 6. Vergil's Aeneid, Pride Unsettled -- Troy -- Carthage -- Athletic Victories -- The Iliadic Half -- Turnus and the End -- Tarquinius and Brutus, Agrippa and Augustus -- Appendix: Gods' Lovers, Gods' Helpers, Gods' Human Pets -- 7. The Transformation of Pride in Augustan Poetry -- Triumph and Defeat in Horace, Carmina 1 -- Pride and Love -- Pride and Poetry -- The Late Augustan Aftermath -- 8. Positive Pride in Post-Augustan Literature -- Poetic Pride -- Pride in the Public Sphere -- Pride by Association -- Flavian Epic -- Positive Pride in Pliny the Elder -- Conclusion (Part III) -- Coda: The Triumph of Stoic Virtue -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Works -- Index of Greek and Latin -- General Index.
