Drawing on a wide range of ancient texts, and on recent work in anthropology and psychology, "Restraining Rage" explains the rise and persistence of the obsessive concern with the control or elimination of rage from Homer to late antiquity.[...]
From the "Iliad" to "Aristophanes", from the gospel of "Matthew" to "Augustine", Greek and Latin texts are constellated with descriptive images of dreams. Some are formulaic, others intensely vivid. The best ancient minds - Plato, Aristotle, the physician Galen, and others - struggled to understand [...]