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In the grip of disease : studies in the Greek imagination / G.E.R. Lloyd.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard), 1933- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Medicine, Greek and Roman.
- Medicine, Ancient.
- Medicine--Greece--History.
- Medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 258 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This title explores Greek ideas about health and disease and their influence on Greek thought. Fundamental issues such as causation and responsibility, gender differences, authority, reality and appearances, good government, happiness, and good and evil, are deeply implicated.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- 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?
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2003.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-03932-1
- 0-19-158928-4
- 1-280-44686-2
- 1-4237-6749-7
- OCLC:
- 1027155015
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