Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

William V. Harris (Volume Editor)

Contributor:

Harris, William V. (William Vernon), editor.

Series:

Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 44.

Columbia studies in the classical tradition ; Volume 44

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pain in literature.

Pleasure in literature.

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2018.

Summary:

Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times attempts to blaze a trail for the cross-disciplinary humanistic study of pain and pleasure, with literature scholars, historians and philosophers all setting out to understand how the Greeks and Romans experienced, managed and reasoned about the sensations and experiences they felt as painful or pleasurable. The book is intended to provoke discussion of a wide range of problems in the cultural history of antiquity. It addresses both the physicality of erôs and illness, and physiological and philosophical doctrines, especially hedonism and anti-hedonism in their various forms. Fine points of terminology (Greek is predictably rich in this area) receive careful attention. Authors in question run from Homer to (among others) the Hippocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Seneca, Plutarch, Galen and the Aristotle-commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Dedication

Preface / W. V. Harris

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Pain and Pleasure as a Field of Historical Study / W. V. Harris

Post-primordial Pleasures: The Pleasures of the Flesh and the Question of Origins / James Davidson

Must We Suffer in Order to Stay Healthy? Pleasure and Pain in Ancient Medical Literature / Véronique Boudon-Millot

Pain and Medicine in the Classical World* / W. V. Harris

Pleasure and the Medicus in Roman Literature / Caroline Wazer

What is Hedonism?1 / Katja Maria Vogt

Pleasure, Pain, and the Unity of the Soul in Plato’s Protagoras / Wolfgang-Rainer Mann and Vanessa de Harven

Lucretian Pleasure / Elizabeth Asmis

Joy, Flow, and the Sage’s Experience in Seneca1 / Sam McVane

Alexander of Aphrodisias on Pleasure and Pain in Aristotle1 / Wei Cheng

On Grief and Pain1 / David Konstan

Nero in Hell: Plutarch’s De Sera Numinis Vindicta1 / Marcus Folch

Back Matter

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

90-04-37950-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004379503 DOI