| Description |
1 online resource (x, 229 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in ancient medicine, 0925-1421 ; v. 30 |
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Studies in ancient medicine ; v. 30. 0925-1421
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Tragedy, medicine and suffering in the fifth century B.C -- Chapter One: The Healing Art -- a. The Healer: Lively metaphor and lived reality -- b. Technê and Technitai in the Hippocratic Corpus -- c. Heroic measures and the healing art -- Chapter Two: Healers in Greek Tragedy -- a. Prometheus Bound: The healer as philanthropist -- b. Euripides' Hippolytus: The charlatan in action -- c. Ion: Malpractice suits -- d. Medea: First, do no harm -- e. Orestes: No heroic measures -- Chapter Three: The Story of Disease |
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Chapter Four: Causes of Disease in the Hippocratic Corpus -- Chapter Five: Remedy in the Hippocratic Corpus -- a. Allopathy -- b. Metabolê -- c. Apostasis -- d. Malthakia and ischys -- Chapter Six: Finding the Cause and Finding the Cure: Four Euripidean Plays -- a. Orestes: No way out -- b. Heracles: Politics, plagues and the patient -- c. Phoenissae: Balanced interiors -- d. Bacchae: Homeopathy and repression -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index nominum et rerum -- Index locorum |
| Summary |
This book demonstrates the importance of Greek medical thought in the work of Euripides. The first part of the book argues for the significance of the healing figure in Euripidean drama, while the second part analyzes the role of traditional and rationalist healing strategies in the construction of Euripidean plots and arguments. The work will be of interest to those pursuing studies in Greek drama, Greek intellectual history and Greek medicine |
| Analysis |
Euripides |
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Literature and medicine - Greece - History - To 1500 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Euripides -- Knowledge -- Medicine
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Hippocrates -- Influence
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Euripides |
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Hippocrates |
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Literature and medicine -- Greece -- History -- To 1500
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Medicine, Greek and Roman.
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Medicine in literature.
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Tragedy.
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Medicine in Literature
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History, Ancient
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tragedies.
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tragedy (general genre)
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DRAMA -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Literature and medicine
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Medicine
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Medicine, Greek and Roman
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Medicine in literature
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Tragedy
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Grieks.
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Tragedies.
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Geneeskunde.
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Greece |
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Greece
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2004054524 |
| ISBN |
9781429427890 |
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1429427892 |
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9789004139930 |
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9004139931 |
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