In the Grip of Disease
Studies in the Greek Imagination
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 March 2003
- ISBN 9780199253234
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 223x143x20 mm
- Weight 436 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This original and lively book uses texts from ancient medicine, epic, lyric, tragedy, historiography, philosophy, and religion to explore the influence of Greek ideas on health and disease on Greek thought. Fundamental issues are deeply implicated: causation and responsibility, purification and pollution, the mind-body relationship and gender differences, authority and the expert, reality and appearances, good government, and good and evil themselves.
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This original and lively book explores Greek ideas about health and disease and their influence on Greek thought. Fundamental issues such as causation and responsibility, purification and pollution, mind-body relations and gender differences, authority and the expert and who can challenge them, reality and appearances, good government, happiness, and good and evil themselves are deeply implicated. Using the evidence not just from Greek medical theory and practice but also from epic, lyric, tragedy, historiography, philosophy, and religion, G. E. R. Lloyd offers the first comprehensive account of the influence of Greek thought about health and disease on the Greek imagination.
This study is impressive. Lloyd ... emphasizes the diversity of classical approaches to disease as much as any common ground.
Table of Contents:
Anthropological Perspectives
Archaic Literature and Masters of Truth
Secularization and Sacralization
Tragedy
The Historians
Plato
Aristotle
After Aristotle: Or Did Anything Change?
Epilogue
