Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times.
William V. Harris (Volume Editor)
Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times. - 1 online resource. - Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 44. Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386266. .
Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Preface / Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Pain and Pleasure as a Field of Historical Study / Post-primordial Pleasures: The Pleasures of the Flesh and the Question of Origins / Must We Suffer in Order to Stay Healthy? Pleasure and Pain in Ancient Medical Literature / Pain and Medicine in the Classical World* / Pleasure and the Medicus in Roman Literature / What is Hedonism?1 / Pleasure, Pain, and the Unity of the Soul in Plato’s Protagoras / Lucretian Pleasure / Joy, Flow, and the Sage’s Experience in Seneca1 / Alexander of Aphrodisias on Pleasure and Pain in Aristotle1 / On Grief and Pain1 / Nero in Hell: Plutarch’s De Sera Numinis Vindicta1 / Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index. W. V. Harris -- W. V. Harris -- James Davidson -- Véronique Boudon-Millot -- W. V. Harris -- Caroline Wazer -- Katja Maria Vogt -- Wolfgang-Rainer Mann and Vanessa de Harven -- Elizabeth Asmis -- Sam McVane -- Wei Cheng -- David Konstan -- Marcus Folch --
Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times attempts to blaze a trail for the cross-disciplinary humanistic study of pain and pleasure, with literature scholars, historians and philosophers all setting out to understand how the Greeks and Romans experienced, managed and reasoned about the sensations and experiences they felt as painful or pleasurable. The book is intended to provoke discussion of a wide range of problems in the cultural history of antiquity. It addresses both the physicality of erôs and illness, and physiological and philosophical doctrines, especially hedonism and anti-hedonism in their various forms. Fine points of terminology (Greek is predictably rich in this area) receive careful attention. Authors in question run from Homer to (among others) the Hippocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Seneca, Plutarch, Galen and the Aristotle-commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias.
9789004379503
10.1163/9789004379503 DOI
Pain in literature.
Pleasure in literature.
Classical literature--History and criticism.
Philosophy, Ancient.
PA3003 / .P345 2018
880.09
Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times. - 1 online resource. - Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 44. Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386266. .
Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Preface / Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Pain and Pleasure as a Field of Historical Study / Post-primordial Pleasures: The Pleasures of the Flesh and the Question of Origins / Must We Suffer in Order to Stay Healthy? Pleasure and Pain in Ancient Medical Literature / Pain and Medicine in the Classical World* / Pleasure and the Medicus in Roman Literature / What is Hedonism?1 / Pleasure, Pain, and the Unity of the Soul in Plato’s Protagoras / Lucretian Pleasure / Joy, Flow, and the Sage’s Experience in Seneca1 / Alexander of Aphrodisias on Pleasure and Pain in Aristotle1 / On Grief and Pain1 / Nero in Hell: Plutarch’s De Sera Numinis Vindicta1 / Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index. W. V. Harris -- W. V. Harris -- James Davidson -- Véronique Boudon-Millot -- W. V. Harris -- Caroline Wazer -- Katja Maria Vogt -- Wolfgang-Rainer Mann and Vanessa de Harven -- Elizabeth Asmis -- Sam McVane -- Wei Cheng -- David Konstan -- Marcus Folch --
Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times attempts to blaze a trail for the cross-disciplinary humanistic study of pain and pleasure, with literature scholars, historians and philosophers all setting out to understand how the Greeks and Romans experienced, managed and reasoned about the sensations and experiences they felt as painful or pleasurable. The book is intended to provoke discussion of a wide range of problems in the cultural history of antiquity. It addresses both the physicality of erôs and illness, and physiological and philosophical doctrines, especially hedonism and anti-hedonism in their various forms. Fine points of terminology (Greek is predictably rich in this area) receive careful attention. Authors in question run from Homer to (among others) the Hippocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Seneca, Plutarch, Galen and the Aristotle-commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias.
9789004379503
10.1163/9789004379503 DOI
Pain in literature.
Pleasure in literature.
Classical literature--History and criticism.
Philosophy, Ancient.
PA3003 / .P345 2018
880.09