In the Grip of Disease : Studies in the Greek Imagination

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. 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.--book Jacket. 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. G.e.r. Lloyd. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [247]-252) And Index. Text In English, With Some Greek. 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. 0199253234......Page 1 1 Anthropological Perspectives......Page 8 List of Texts and Translations......Page 10 2 Archaic Literature and Masters of Truth......Page 37 3 Secularization and Sacralization......Page 63 4 Tragedy......Page 107 5 The Historians......Page 137 6 Plato......Page 165 7 Aristotle......Page 199 8 After Aristotle: Or Did Anything Change?......Page 225 9 Epilogue......Page 255 Bibliography......Page 270 Index......Page 276 Using texts from ancient medicine, epic, lyric, tragedy, historiography, philosophy, and religion, this book explores the influence of Greek ideas on health and disease on Greek thought. Fundamental issues such as causation and responsibility, purification and pollution, mind-body relations and gender differences are deeply implicated. The ancient Greeks were plagued by plagues real and imaginary.