| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 258 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-252) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Text in English, Greek, and Latin. |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Ancient.
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Philosophy, Ancient. |
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Medicine, Greek and Roman.
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Medicine, Greek and Roman. |
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Medicine, Ancient.
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Medicine, Ancient. |
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Medicine -- Greece -- History.
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Medicine. |
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Greece. |
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History. |
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Literature and medicine -- Greece -- History -- To 1500.
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Literature and medicine. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Subject |
History, Ancient. |
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Greek World. |
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History of Medicine. |
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Medicine in Literature. |
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Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lloyd, G.E.R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard), 1933- In the grip of disease. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003 (DLC) 2003271017 |
| ISBN |
1423767497 (electronic book) |
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9781423767497 (electronic book) |
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9780199253234 (cloth) |
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0199253234 (cloth) |
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1280446862 |
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9781280446863 |
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0199253234 (cloth) |
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