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Author Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard), 1933-

Title In the grip of disease : studies in the Greek imagination / G.E.R. Lloyd
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 258 pages)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-252) and index
Notes Text in English, Greek, and Latin
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Subject Philosophy, Ancient.
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
Medicine, Ancient.
Medicine -- Greece -- History
Literature and medicine -- Greece -- History -- To 1500
Medicine in literature.
Philosophy.
History, Ancient
Medicine in Literature
Philosophy
Greek World
philosophy.
MEDICAL -- History.
Philosophy
Medicine in literature
Literature and medicine
Medicine
Medicine, Ancient
Medicine, Greek and Roman
Philosophy, Ancient
Geistesgeschichte
Geschichtsschreibung
Griechisch
Literatur
Medizin
Philosophie
Ziekte.
Voorstellingsvermogen.
Griekse oudheid.
Greece
Griechenland Altertum
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1423767497
9781423767497
9780199253234
0199253234
1280446862
9781280446863