Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome

Robert A. Kaster is Professor of Classics and Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin at Princeton University.

• Preface Introduction 1.: Between Respect and Shame: Verecundia and the Art of Social Worry 2.: Fifty Ways to Feel your Pudor 3.: The Structure of Paenitentia and the Egoism of Regret 4.: Invidia is One Thing, Invidia Quite Another 5.: The Dynamics of Fastidium and the Ideology of Disgust 6.: Epilogue --Being "Wholly Roman"

Kaster's recent monograph is a rich, stimulating investigation of a particular set of Roman emotions.