In the Grip of Disease

Using texts from ancient medicine, epic, lyric, tragedy, historiography, philosophy, and religion, this book explores the influence of Greek ideas on health and disease on Greek thought. Fundamental issues such as causation and responsibility, purification and pollution, mind-body relations and gender differences are deeply implicated.

This study is impressive. Lloyd ... emphasizes the diversity of classical approaches to disease as much as any common ground.

Autorentext
G. E. R. Lloyd is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science at the University of Cambridge

Klappentext
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.


Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
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

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