Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
I. Approaches
1. Striving for Anger Control
2. Science and Feelings
3. The Greek and Latin Terminology
4. The Minds of Ancient Authors
5. A Tradition of Self-Control
6. Philosophies of Restraining Rage
II. Anger in Society and in the State
7. The Heroes and the Archaic State
8. Living Together in the Classical Polis
9. The Roman Version
10. Restraining the Angry Ruler
11. A Thesis about Women and Anger
III. Intimate Rage
12. Family and Friends
13. Slavery
IV. Anger and the Invention of Psychic Health
14. Anger as a Sickness of the Soul in Classical Greece
15. Can You Cure Emotions? Hellenistic and Roman Anger Therapy
16. From Sickness to Sin: Early Christianity and Anger
17. Retrospect and Prospect
Bibliography
Index