The historian Livy wrote of Greek athletes’ appearing in Rome as early as 186 bce; however, the contestants’ nudity shocked Roman moralists. The emperor Augustus instituted the Actian Games in 27 bce to celebrate his victory over Antony and Cleopatra, and several of his successors began ...
the latter by anger and envy. Althoughmoralthinking about emotions has always been concerned with emotional extremes and malformations, as inpsychopathologyand madness, those phenomena have never been the primaryreasonfor interest in the emotions. As Aristotle and the medieval moralists understood quite...
The historian Livy wrote of Greek athletes’ appearing in Rome as early as 186 bce; however, the contestants’ nudity shocked Roman moralists. The emperor Augustus instituted the Actian Games in 27 bce to celebrate his victory over Antony and Cleopatra, and several of his successors began ...