Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Conventions
- Introduction
- 1 Epicurean anger
- 2 Cicero and the expression of grief
- 3 The subjugation of grief in Seneca's Epistles
- 4 A passion unconsoled? Grief and anger in Juvenal Satire 13
- 5 Passion, reason and knowledge in Seneca's tragedies
- 6 Imagination and the arousal of the emotions in Greco-Roman rhetoric
- 7 Pity, fear and the historical audience: Tacitus on the fall of Vitellius
- 8 All in the mind: sickness in Catullus 76
- 9 Ferox uirtus: anger in Virgil's Aeneid
- 10 ‘Envy and fear the begetter of hate’: Statius' Thebaid and the genesis of hatred
- 11 Passion as madness in Roman poetry
- Bibliography
- Index of ancient passages
- General index
8 - All in the mind: sickness in Catullus 76
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Conventions
- Introduction
- 1 Epicurean anger
- 2 Cicero and the expression of grief
- 3 The subjugation of grief in Seneca's Epistles
- 4 A passion unconsoled? Grief and anger in Juvenal Satire 13
- 5 Passion, reason and knowledge in Seneca's tragedies
- 6 Imagination and the arousal of the emotions in Greco-Roman rhetoric
- 7 Pity, fear and the historical audience: Tacitus on the fall of Vitellius
- 8 All in the mind: sickness in Catullus 76
- 9 Ferox uirtus: anger in Virgil's Aeneid
- 10 ‘Envy and fear the begetter of hate’: Statius' Thebaid and the genesis of hatred
- 11 Passion as madness in Roman poetry
- Bibliography
- Index of ancient passages
- General index
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- The Passions in Roman Thought and Literature , pp. 150 - 168Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997
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