Kakos, Badness and Anti-value in Classical Antiquity (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)

ThefourthinaseriesthatexploresculturalandethicalvaluesinClassicalAntiquity,thisvolumeexaminesthenegativefoils,theanti-values,againstwhichpositivevaluenotionsareconceptualizedandcalibratedinClassicalAntiquity.Eighteenchaptersaddressthisthemefromdifferentperspectives-historical,literary,legalandphilosophical.Whatmakessomeoneintoaprototypically'bad'citizen?Oranabominationofascholar?Whatistherelationshipbetweenuglinessandvalue?Howdoiconsofsexualperversion,monstruousemperorsanddetestablehabitsfunctioninphilosophicalandrhetoricalprose?Thebookilluminatesthemanyrhetoricalmanifestationsoftheconceptof'badness'inclassicalantiquityinavarietyofdomains.