In the grip of disease
Subtitle: studies in Greek imagination
By: G.E.R. Lloyd.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng; grc; lat
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Philosophy, Ancient; Medicine, Greek and Roman; Medicine, Ancient; Medicine -- Greece -- History; Medicine in literature
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-252) and index.

Text in English with some Greek.