In the Grip of Disease: Studies in the Greek Imagination

by G. E. R. Lloyd

2020-11-25 02:10:00

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, authori... Read more
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 challengethem, 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 firstcomprehensive account of the influence of Greek thought about health and disease on the Greek imagination. Less

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File size8.5 X 5.43 X 0.79 in
Print pages280
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date November 28, 2003
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780199253234
Author
G. E. R. Lloyd, University lecturer in Classics at Cambridge, was born in London in 1933 and educated at Charterhouse. He graduated at King’s College, Cambridge, where he later took his MA and PhD, ...

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