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In the Grip of Disease: Studies in the Greek Imagination

By G. E. R. Lloyd

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2003
ISBN
9780199253234, 0199253234
Open Library ID
OL22489578M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2195989 bytes)
Pages
281\281
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

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.

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