Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times.

• Superior document: Columbia studies in the classical tradition ; Volume 44
• Author: William V. Harris (Volume Editor)
• TeilnehmendeR: Harris, William V.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 44.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (279 pages).
• Other title: 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.
• ISBN: 9004379509
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

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.