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Title Kakos : badness and anti-value in classical antiquity / edited by Ineke Sluiter and Ralph M. Rosen.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 514 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Mnemosyne supplements, 0169-8958 ; v. 307
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 307.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents List of Contributors; Chapter 1. General Introduction (Ineke Sluiter); Chapter 2. Generic Ethics and the Problem of Badness in Pindar (Kathryn Morgan); Chapter 3. Ugliness and Value in the Life of Aesop (Jeremy B. Lefkowitz); Chapter 4. Beetle Tracks: Entomology, Scatology and the Discourse of Abuse (Deborah Steiner); Chapter 5. 'Bad' Language in Aristophanes (Ian C. Storey); Chapter 6. Badness and Intentionality in Aristophanes' Frogs (Ralph M. Rosen); Chapter 7. Imagining Bad Citizenship in Classical Athens: Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae 730-876 (Matthew R. Christ).
Summary Part of 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. It includes chapters that address this theme from historical, literary, legal, and philosophical perspectives.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Values -- Greece.
Values.
Greece.
Values -- Rome.
Values -- History.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Sluiter, I. (Ineke)
Rosen, Ralph Mark.
Other Form: Print version: Kakos. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008 9789004166240 (DLC) 2008042421 (OCoLC)262430539
ISBN 9789047443148 (electronic book)
9047443144 (electronic book)
9789004166240 (alkaline paper)
9004166246 (alkaline paper)
Standard No. 10.1163/ej.9789004166240.i-516