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Pity Transformed

Pity Transformed

Konstan, David

Hardcover

Series: Classical Inter/Faces

Literary CriticismAncient History General

ISBN10: 0715629042
ISBN13: 9780715629048
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Sep 27 2001
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.34
Language: English

Pity Transformed is an examination of how pity was imagined and expressed in classical antiquity. It pays particular attention to the ways in which the pity of the Greeks and Romans differed from modern ideas. Among the topics investigated in this study are the appeal to pity in courts of law and the connection between pity and desert; the relation between pity and love or intimacy; self-pity; the role of pity in war and its relation to human rights and human dignity; divine pity from paganism to Christianity; and why pity was considered an emotion. This book will lead readers to ponder how the Greeks and Romans were both like and unlike us in this fundamental area of cultural sensibility.

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