... a reflexive response to vile substances (“primary disgust”) and a powerful mechanism of social and moral exclusion (“moral disgust”), is salient in ancient literature and art. The study of ancient disgust is incorporated in a bourgeoning literature concerning slander, the aesthetics of ugliness...

... approaches to the emotion as a response to vile substances (e.g., rotten food) or “abnormal” practices (sexual “deviances”) or old age and ugliness. It also uses modern advancements in the fields of psychology and philosophy by way of explaining the mechanisms that facilitated ancient deployments...