Medicine and paradoxography in the ancient world / edited by George Kazantzidis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kazantzidis, Georgios, 1979- editor.

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 81.

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; volume 81

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VIII, 225 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Technological Wonder in Herodotus' Histories p. 41 / Maria Gerolemou

Paradoxography and the pseudo-Aristotelian Problemata p. 53 / Katerina Oikonomopoulou

In the Realm of the Two-Headed Snake: Pragmatics and Aesthetics of Mirabilia in Nicander's Theriaca and Alexipharmaca p. 73 / Floris Overduin

Wondrous Healings in Greek Epigrams (and their Parodic Counterparts) p. 95 / Lucia Floridi

Beyond the Limits of the Human Body: Phlegon of Trades' Medical Curiosities p. 117 / Julia Doroszewska

Phlegon's Paradoxical Physiology: Centaurs in the Peri Thaumasion p. 141 / Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson

Galen's Language of Wonder: Thauma, Medicine and Philosophy in On Prognosis and On Affected Parts p. 163 / Jessica Lightfoot

Literary Remedies and Rhetorical Prescriptions in Aelius Aristides: Medical Paradoxography or Common Practise? p. 183 / Georgia Petridou

Unknowable Questions and Paradoxography in ps.-Alexander of Aphrodisias' Medical Puzzles and Natural Problems p. 199 / Michiel Meeusen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110660470

3110660474

Publisher Number:

99982039168

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