Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Ethics, ethology, terminology: Iliadic anger and the cross-cultural study of emotion -- Chapter 2 Anger and pity in Homer's Iliad -- Chapter 3 Angry bees, wasps, and jurors: the symbolic politics of…in Athens -- Chapter 4 Aristotle on anger and the emotions: the strategies of status -- aristotle's account of anger -- emotions and cognition -- anger and insult -- the world of anger -- anger and other emotions -- good anger? -- Chapter 5 The rage of women -- Chapter 6 Thumos as masculine ideal and social pathology in ancient Greek magical spells -- thumos- restraining spells: origins, history, and taxonomy -- the amuletic tradition of anger restraint and love spells -- some tentative conclusions -- Chapter 7 Anger and gender in Chariton's Chaereas and Callirhoe -- Chapter 8 "Your mother nursed you with bile": anger in babies and small children -- terminology for babies -- crying babies -- swaddling -- toddlers' efforts to stand and walk -- teething and the "fat cuts of lamb" -- socialization of princes and supervised play -- Chapter 9 Reactive and objective attitudes: anger in Virgil's Aeneid and Hellenistic philosophy -- reactive and objective attitudes -- ancient philosophical perspectives on anger -- hellenistic philosophy and virgil's aeneid -- aeneas and anger - reactive or objective attitudes? -- Chapter 10 The angry poet and the angry gods: problems of theodicy in Lucan's epic of defeat -- ira deorum and its role in historiography and epic before lucan -- from virgil to lucan: the gods off-stage -- the gods, fortuna, and pompey's death -- epilogue: ira deorum / iovis ira / caesaris ira -- Chapter 11 An ABC of epic ira: anger, beasts, and cannibalism -- boy achilles' diet.

angry warriors of epic: the scope and limitations of this study -- thornton on epic anger -- the angry warrior as wild beast: the evidence -- the role of anger in close combat -- battlefield anger without similes -- anger, context, and appropriateness -- ira beyond the bounds: cannibalism -- abc: anger, beasts, and cannibalism -- References -- Index of passages cited -- Index of proper names -- Index of topics.