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The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature.(Book review)

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From: Canadian Journal of History
Date: 20070322
Author:Podlecki, Anthony J.

The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature, by David Konstan. Robson Classical Lectures. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2006. xvi, 422 pp. $85.00 Cdn (cloth).

This volume started life as the Robson Classical Lectures for 2001, a series delivered annually at Victoria University in the University of Toronto to commemorate Donald Oakley Robson, a professor of Latin there from 1947 to 1975. Konstan, who is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Brown University, takes as his starting-point Aristotle's analyses of the ...

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