In the Grip of Disease: Studies in the Greek Imagination

by G. E. R. Lloyd

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199253234
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/10/2003
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

1. Anthropological Perspectives2. Archaic Literature and Masters of Truth3. Secularization and Sacralization4. Tragedy5. The Historians6. Plato7. Aristotle8. After Aristotle: Or Did Anything Change? 9. Epilogue

Editorial Reviews

"This study is impressive. Lloyd...emphasizes the diversity of classical approaches to disease as much as any common ground."—Times Literary Supplement

"This is a stimulating and erudite study of many often-neglected aspects of ancient Greek thought by an acclaimed master of the subject."—Bulletin of the History of Medicine

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