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Health, lifestyle, and elite culture in Greek and Roman times / Konstantine Panegyres.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Panegyres, Konstantine, Author.
- Series:
- Medicine and the body in antiquity
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Greek and Roman.
- Health behavior--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.
- Health behavior.
- Lifestyles--Mediterranean Region.
- Lifestyles.
- Civilization, Greco-Roman.
- Elite (Social sciences)--History.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Health behavior--History.
- Lifestyles--History.
- Mediterranean Region--Social life and customs.
- Mediterranean Region.
- Greece.
- Rome (Empire).
- Physical Description:
- 262 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.
- Summary:
- "This book examines how elite literary authors conceived of the relationship between health and lifestyle in the Graeco-Roman world. Through careful analysis of a wide range of ancient literary sources, provided in both the original Greek and Latin and in English translation, the book explores what Graeco-Roman authors thought about how lifestyle could contribute to a person's healthiness or unhealthiness. It examines Graeco-Roman concepts of health and lifestyle from the Homeric poems to the Hippocratic Corpus, before examining the medical regulation of lifestyle for health purposes, the nature of people's healthy daily lifestyle habits, the various moral perspectives held by people in antiquity about health and lifestyle, and the influence of circumstances in determining whether people can live a healthy or unhealthy lifestyle. Health, Lifestyle, and Elite Culture in Greek and Roman Times is a richly documented study suitable for students and scholars of health and medicine in antiquity. It is also of interest to people studying or researching the history of health and medicine, and all those interested in the classical world generally"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Contexts
- Defining health
- Defining lifestyle
- The emergence of ideas about health and lifestyle : from Homer to the Hippocratic corpus
- The regulation of lifestyle for health
- Personal behaviour, lifestyle, and health
- Moralizing perspectives on health and lifestyle
- Personal circumstances, lifestyle, and health.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version Panegyres, Konstantine Health, lifestyle, and elite culture in Greek and Roman times
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781032974040
- 1032974044
- 9781032974064
- 1032974060
- OCLC:
- 1535397025
- Publisher Number:
- 90103562061
- CIPO000326912
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