Medicine and Paradoxography in the Ancient World /

Medicine and Paradoxography in the Ancient World / / ed. by George Kazantzidis.

The present volume offers a systematic discussion of the complex relationship between medicine and paradoxography in the ancient world.For a long time, the relationship between the two has been assumed to be virtually non-existent. Paradoxography is concerned with disclosing a world full of marvels...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Doroszewska, Julia,
Floridi, Lucia,
Gerolemou, Maria,
Kazantzidis, George,
Lightfoot, Jessica,
Meeusen, Michiel,
Oikonomopoulou, Katerina,
Overduin, Floris,
Petridou, Georgia,
Shannon-Henderson, Kelly E.,
HerausgeberIn:
Kazantzidis, George,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 81
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 225 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Medicine and Paradoxography in Dialogue
  • Technological Wonder in Herodotus’ Histories
  • Paradoxography and the pseudo- Aristotelian Problemata
  • In the Realm of the Two-Headed Snake
  • Wondrous Healings in Greek Epigrams (and Their Parodic Counterparts)
  • Beyond the Limits of the Human Body
  • Phlegon’s Paradoxical Physiology
  • Galen’s Language of Wonder
  • Literary Remedies and Rhetorical Prescriptions in Aelius Aristides
  • Unknowable Questions and Paradoxography in ps.–Alexander of Aphrodisias’ Medical Puzzles and Natural Problems
  • List of Contributors
  • Index Rerum et Nominum
  • Index Locorum

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