Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times.
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 ex...
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| Superior document: | Columbia studies in the classical tradition ; Volume 44 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (279 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Preface / W. V. Harris
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Pain and Pleasure as a Field of Historical Study / W. V. Harris
- Post-primordial Pleasures: The Pleasures of the Flesh and the Question of Origins / James Davidson
- Must We Suffer in Order to Stay Healthy? Pleasure and Pain in Ancient Medical Literature / Véronique Boudon-Millot
- Pain and Medicine in the Classical World* / W. V. Harris
- Pleasure and the Medicus in Roman Literature / Caroline Wazer
- What is Hedonism?1 / Katja Maria Vogt
- Pleasure, Pain, and the Unity of the Soul in Plato’s Protagoras / Wolfgang-Rainer Mann and Vanessa de Harven
- Lucretian Pleasure / Elizabeth Asmis
- Joy, Flow, and the Sage’s Experience in Seneca1 / Sam McVane
- Alexander of Aphrodisias on Pleasure and Pain in Aristotle1 / Wei Cheng
- On Grief and Pain1 / David Konstan
- Nero in Hell: Plutarch’s De Sera Numinis Vindicta1 / Marcus Folch
- Back Matter
- Bibliography
- Index.