In the Grip of Disease: Studies in the Greek Imagination

ISBN-13: 9780199275878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 258 str.

Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd

Opis

This original and lively book uses texts from ancient medicine, epic, lyric, tragedy, historiography, philosophy, and religion to explore the influence of Greek ideas on health and disease on Greek thought. Fundamental issues are deeply implicated: causation and responsibility, purification and pollution, the mind-body relationship and gender differences, authority and the expert, reality and appearances, good government, and good and evil themselves.

Recenzje

This study is impressive. Lloyd ... emphasizes the diversity of classical approaches to disease as much as any common ground.

O autorze

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