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In the Grip of Disease
Studies in the Greek Imagination

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United Kingdom, 1 October 2004

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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9780199275878
ISBN
0199275874
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black & white illustrations
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21.7 x 13.9 x 1.6 centimeters (0.40 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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`Review from previous edition an ideal text for students. Readers unfamiliar with this historical period are also made welcome; Lloyd assumes no knowledge of the classical world, and his argument develops very clearly.'
Social History of Medicine
`Those already familiar with Lloyd's discussions of ancient science, philosophy and medicine will be interested to read through his eyes Greek epic poetry, tragedy, and history.'
Social History of Medicine

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