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

The Review of Metaphysics | March 1, 2008| | Copyright

KONSTAN, David. The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks. Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2006. 422 pp.--This work has as its starting point the author's presentations in the prestigious Robson Lectures at the Victoria College of the University of Toronto (Autumn 2001). David Konstan seems to have intended his work as a kind of thorough rereading and reinterpretation of some key moral and psychological concepts in the writings of Aristotle and in the literature of Classical Greece. In the end the work may prove ...

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