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KAKOS, Badness and Anti-Value in Classical Antiquity

By Ineke Sluiter , Ralph M. Rosen

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2009
ISBN
9004166246, 9789004166240
LCC
BD232 .K26 2009
Open Library ID
OL22657800M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3292788 bytes)
Series
Mnemosyne Supplements 307
Pages
525\525
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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 perspectives - historical, literary, legal and philosophical. What makes someone into a prototypically 'bad' citizen? Or an abomination of a scholar? What is the relationship between ugliness and value? How do icons of sexual perversion, monstruous emperors and detestable habits function in philosophical and rhetorical prose? The book illuminates the many rhetorical manifestations of the concept of 'badness' in classical antiquity in a variety of domains.

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