In the Grip of Disease: Studies in the Greek Imagination Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

In the Grip of Disease: Studies in the Greek Imagination Book

In the Grip of Disease : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780199253234 : 0199253234 : 10 Apr 2003 : Explores Greek ideas about health and disease and their influence on Greek thought. This book talks about fundamental issues such as causation and responsibility, purification and pollution, mind-body relations and gender differences, authority and the expert, reality and appearances, good government, happiness, and more.Read More

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  • Product Description

    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.

  • 0199253234
  • 9780199253234
  • G. E. R. Lloyd
  • 6 March 2003
  • OUP Oxford
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 280
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