Title Death and disease in the ancient city / edited by Valerie M. Hope and Eireann Marshall

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 194 pages) Series Routledge classical monographs Routledge classical monographs. Contents Death and disease in Cyrene: a case study / Eireanna Marshall -- Sickness in the body politic: medical imagery in the Greek polis / Roger Brock -- Polis nosousa: Greek ideas about the city and disease in the first century BC / Jennifer Clarke Kosak -- Death and epidemic disease in classical Athens / James Longrigg -- Medical thoughts on urban pollution / Vivian Nutton -- Towns and marshes in the ancient world / Federico Borca -- On the margins of the city of Rome / John R. Patterson -- Contempt and respect: the treatment of the corpses in ancient Rome / Valerie M. Hope -- Dealing with the dead: undertakers, executioners and potter's field in ancient Rome / John Bodel -- Death-pollution and funeral in the city of Rome / Hugh Lindsay Summary Human frailty and mortality influence the structure and functioning of all societies; questions of how the ancients coped with their own mortality, how they sought to classify and control the causes of death, and how they treated the dying and the dead, are therefore central to any understanding of antiquity. This innovative volume draws upon recent research in archaeology, ancient history, and the history of medicine to evaluate all these issues. It addresses a wide range of topics, including views of ancient disease causation; public and private health measures; how the natural and urban environment affected the well-being of the individual; how the city was organised to protect the health and safety of the living; and how the living sought protection from the polluting influence of both the diseased and the dead. Lucid and accessible, this work is the first to unite the study of death and disease in antiquity, providing valuable insights into how these factors shaped the ancient city. It will appeal not only to classical scholars and students, but to all those interested in the history of death and disease Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-189) and index Notes Print version record Subject Medicine, Greek and Roman. Urban health -- Rome Urban health -- Greece Death -- Psychological aspects. Diseases. Urban health. History, Ancient Attitude to Death Disease Urban Health history of medicine. disease. illness. MEDICAL -- History. Diseases. Death -- Psychological aspects. Medicine, Greek and Roman. Urban health. Histoire ancienne. Antike. Bestattung. Krankheit. Stadt. Tod. Politische Theorie. Gesundheit. Polis. Steden. Klassieke oudheid. Medische aspecten. Public health -- Rome. Public health -- Greece. Medicine, Greek and Roman. Maladies -- Antiquité. Mort -- Antiquité. Mortalité. Santé en milieu urbain -- Rome. Santé en milieu urbain -- Grèce. Médecine grecque et romaine. SUBJECT Greece Rome Subject Greece. Rome (Empire) Griechenland Altertum. Römisches Reich. Greece -- Social conditions. Rome -- Social conditions. Genre/Form Electronic books Essays. Form Electronic book Author Hope, Valerie M., 1968- Marshall, Eireann, 1967- ISBN 0203262883 9780203262887 9780203452950 020345295X 9780415214278 0415214270 1280056525 9781280056529

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