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In the Grip of Disease
Studies in the Greek Imagination

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United Kingdom, 6 March 2003

This original and lively book explores Greek ideas about health and disease and their influence on Greek thought. Fundamental issues such as causation and responsibility, purification and pollution, mind-body relations and gender differences, authority and the expert and who can challenge them, reality and appearances, good government, happiness, and good and evil themselves are deeply implicated. Using the evidence not just from Greek medical theory and practice but also from epic, lyric, tragedy, historiography, philosophy, and religion, G. E. R. Lloyd offers the first comprehensive account of the influence of Greek thought about health and disease on the Greek imagination.


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This original and lively book explores Greek ideas about health and disease and their influence on Greek thought. Fundamental issues such as causation and responsibility, purification and pollution, mind-body relations and gender differences, authority and the expert and who can challenge them, reality and appearances, good government, happiness, and good and evil themselves are deeply implicated. Using the evidence not just from Greek medical theory and practice but also from epic, lyric, tragedy, historiography, philosophy, and religion, G. E. R. Lloyd offers the first comprehensive account of the influence of Greek thought about health and disease on the Greek imagination.

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9780199253234
ISBN
0199253234
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21.6 x 14 x 1.9 centimeters (0.50 kg)

Table of Contents

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?
9: Epilogue

About the Author

G. E. R. Lloyd is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science at the University of Cambridge

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This study is impressive. Lloyd ... emphasizes the diversity of classical approaches to disease as much as any common ground.
*Rebecca Flemming, TLS*

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