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<br> Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome is one of those scintillating books that tell us something about both the Romans and ourselves.... [Kaster is] a marvellous scholar at the top of his form. --Times Literary Supplement<br> This book is a splendid contribution to a field that has recently burgeoned: the study of the emotions in classical antiquity. Kaster investigates a complex of five interrelated Latin emotion terms: verecundia, pudor, paenitenita, invidia, and fastidium; to the chapters devoted to each of these, he appends an epilogue on integritas. The result is a rich portrait of what these ideas meant to the Romans and how they conditioned their behaviour.... Kaster is an excellent reader, and his elegant interpretations contribute greatly to the value of this gracefully written book. --David Konstan, Journal of Roman Studies<br> The importance of Kaster's new book cannot be overstated, both as a study of the Roman ideology of self-restraint in its own right an
