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In the grip of disease : studies in the Greek imagination / G.E.R. Lloyd.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Greek, Ancient (to 1453), Latin Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [(c)2003.]Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 258 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1423767497
  • 9781423767497
  • 1280446862
  • 9781280446863
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • B187.4
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Contents:
Cover -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Texts and Translations -- Acknowledgements -- 1: Anthropological Perspectives -- 2: Archaic Literature and Masters of Truth -- 3: Secularization and Sacralization -- 4: Tragedy -- 5: The Historians -- 6: Plato -- 7: Aristotle -- 8: After Aristotle: Or Did Anything Change? -- 9: Epilogue -- Bibliography.
Summary: 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.
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Online Book G. Allen Fleece Library Online Non-fiction B187.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn229989990

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Texts and Translations -- Acknowledgements -- 1: Anthropological Perspectives -- 2: Archaic Literature and Masters of Truth -- 3: Secularization and Sacralization -- 4: Tragedy -- 5: The Historians -- 6: Plato -- 7: Aristotle -- 8: After Aristotle: Or Did Anything Change? -- 9: Epilogue -- Bibliography.

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Text in English, Greek, and Latin.

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.

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