In the grip of disease Studies in the Greek imagination

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 poll...

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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Lloyd, G.E.R.
Awduron Eraill: G.E.R. Lloyd
Iaith:Undetermined
English
Cyhoeddwyd: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2003
Pynciau:
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Disgrifiad
Crynodeb: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
Disgrifiad Corfforoll:258 p.
ill.
23 cm
ISBN:0199253234
9780199253234