PREFACE

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PREFACE

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August 2005

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“So what are you working on these days?”
“Oh, shame, disgust, envy, and regret.”
“Ah, the story of my life.”

In the course of writing this book, I heard that last comment so often that I appropriated it and made it part of my own reply (“Oh, shame, disgust, envy, and regret—you know, the story of my life”). None of this was meant very seriously, of course; yet I was clearly onto a topic that—unlike, say, the Roman grammarians of late antiquity—had some resonance with other people's experience. And, in fact, I had stumbled onto it as an offshoot of my own experience.

It was an experience that, all things considered, I would gladly have forgone, or so I felt at the time. In 1996, when I was president of the American Philological Association, it happened that some members of the Association, a faction, really, behaved in ways I thought shameful, and I wanted to acknowledge the fact in the presidential address that I was required to deliver at the year's end. Because I could not refer to the behavior directly, for a range of reasons, I hit upon the idea of talking about the Roman version of shame: I could thereby meet the obligations of the occasion—by custom, part scholarly lecture, part protreptic address—and at the same time allude to the events that had inspired me.¹ I thought that I succeeded, in so far as several people who had reason to know what I was talking about indicated that they knew what I was talking about; and in any case I came to see that the Roman versions of shame and some other familiar emotions opened a fascinating prospect for further investigation.

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