Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times

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  • Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times Book Detail

  • Author : William V. Harris
  • Release Date : 2018-09-04
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Genre : Medical
  • Pages : 279
  • ISBN 13 : 9004379509
  • File Size : 23,23 MB

Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times by William V. Harris PDF Summary

Book Description: 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 erĂ´s 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.

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