In the grip of disease : studies in the Greek imagination / G.E.R. Lloyd.
| Author/creator |
Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard), 1933- |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003. |
| Description | xxi, 258 pages ; 22 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subject(s) |
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| 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? |
| Contents | 9. Epilogue. |
| Review | "Using the evidence not just from Greek medical theory and practice, but also from epic, lyric, tragedy, historiography, philosophy and religion, In the Grip of Disease offers for the first time an overview of the influence of Greek thought about disease on the Greek imagination. Particular attention is paid to accounts of real and imaginary plagues (the Iliad, Oedipus Tyrannus, Hippocratic writers, Thucydides, Lucretius), to the concurrent development of Hippocratic and temple medicine (cults of Asclepius and others), to the diagnosis of madness (Herodotus, the Bacchae), and to the rhetoric of the disease of the body politic and how it should be treated. The final chapter explores similarities and contrasts between Greek thought and modern views on such topics as madness, criminality and creativity."--Jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-252) and index. |
| Language | Text in English, with some Greek. |
| LCCN | 2003271017 |
| ISBN | 9780199253234 |
| ISBN | 0199253234 |
| Standard identifier# | 9780199275878 |
| Standard identifier# | 9780199253234 |
| Standard identifier# | 99806415372 |
Available Items
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Laupus | Books - Stacks | WZ 51 G6 L793 2003 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |