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Body and Medicine in Latin Poetry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blanco, Chiara.
- Series:
- Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Series
- Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Series ; v.183
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine in literature.
- Latin poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2026.
- Summary:
- While intersections between Greek literature and medicine have become a focal point of considerable research among Classicists in the last ten years, little work has been done in the ï¬eld of Latin literature, with particular regard to poetry.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Body and Medicine in Latin Poetry
- Preface
- Foreword: Living and Breathing Metaphor?
- Bibliography
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Body and medicine in Ancient Rome
- 2 New approaches to the Roman poetic body
- 3 Content outline
- What is a Latin "Medical Body"? An Anatomy of the Use of Medical Language in Lucretius
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Medical analogies and impostor-syndromes
- 3 Lucretius and medical language
- 4 Medico-literary bodies and poetics
- a. The Sapphic body
- b. The tragic body
- c. The Thucydidean body
- 5 Conclusion
- Concretising the Abstract: Avarice, Dropsy and the Medical Metaphor in Horace's Poetry
- 2 Horace's medical approach: measure, regimen and timeliness
- 3 Avarice and dropsy: a case study
- 4 Conclusion
- Aeneas' Body and Social Suffering in the Aeneid
- 2 Impossible medicine in the Aeneid
- 3 Aeneas: the hero in pain
- 4 Body and medicine
- Girlfriend in a Coma: Remedia for Illness in Latin Love Elegy
- 2 Tibullus' defessa Delia and the Latin plague narrative
- 3 Propertius' Cynthia: punitive illness and the poet's carmen
- 4 Ovid's Amores: lassa Corinna
- 5 Gendering illness and inverting poetic auctoritas in the Appendix Tibulliana
- 6 Remedia in the Ars
- 7 Girlfriends in a coma: elegiac illness in the twenty-first century
- Flesh and Stone: Skin and Touch in Ovid's Pygmalion
- 2 Proetides and Propoetides
- 3 Elephas: a petrifying disease
- 4 Male touch and the female body
- 5 From pupa to puella: a rite of passage
- 6 Conclusion
- The Body and the City: Disease, Fury and Self-Mutilation in Seneca's Oedipus
- 2 The plague: the body of the city
- 3 Moral disease: the body of Oedipus.
- 4 Conclusion
- Lucan's Magico-Medical Psylli
- 2 Potential wonders
- 3 Practices of healing
- 4 Facing (imperial) reality
- Connotation and "Com-motion": Putting the Kinēsis into the Roman Cinaedus
- 2 Defining the Latin masculine noun cinaedus: a lexicographical survey
- 3 Explaining the comparative feminine adjective cinaediorem in Catullus 10
- 4 Exploring the connotations of the Latin word cinaedus: observations on cinaedus in Catullus and Petronius
- Carmen salutiferum: Quintus Serenus and His Health-Giving Liber Medicinalis
- 2 The author Serenus
- 3 The Liber Medicinalis and the healing word
- Conclusion
- 1 Introduction: COVID and Ovid
- 2 Body and medicine in Latin poetry: intersections with Medical Humanities
- 3 Ovid and COVID in the age of Medical Humanities
- 4 Ovid's Metamorphoses and spontaneous generation of disease
- 5 The Metamorphoses in the 17th-century scientific revolution: Kircher and Redi
- 6 COVID-19 and Ovid - spontaneous generation in the 21st century
- List of Contributors
- General Index
- Index of Sources
- Acusilaus
- Agatharchides of Cnidus
- Apuleius
- Aretaeus
- (pseudo)Aristotle
- Aulus Gellius
- Bacchylides
- Callias
- Cassius Dio
- Catullus
- Celsus
- Cicero
- Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
- Dioscorides
- Donatus
- (pseudo)Galen
- Hesiod
- Hippocrates/Hippocratic Corpus
- Historia Augusta
- Homer
- Horace
- Juvenal
- Kircher, Athanasius
- Livy
- Longinus
- Lucan
- Lucilius
- Lucretius
- Macrobius
- Manilius
- Martial
- Matthew
- Nemesianus
- Nicander
- Nonius Marcellus
- Oribasius
- Ovid
- Persius
- Petronius
- Pherecydes
- Plato
- Plautus
- Pliny the Elder
- Plutarch.
- Propertius
- Pseudo-Apollodorus
- Quintus Serenus
- Sallust
- Sappho
- Scipio Aemilianus
- Scribonius Largus
- Seneca
- Servius
- Silius Italicus
- Sophocles
- Soranus
- Statius
- Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta (SVF)
- Strabo
- Suda (Lexicon)
- Suetonius
- Tacitus
- The Greek Anthology
- Theocritus
- Theophrastus
- Thucydides
- (pseudo)Tibullus
- Varro
- Vergil/Virgil
- Xenophon.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 3-11-072881-8
- 9783110728811
- OCLC:
- 1583172712
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