In the Grip of Disease: Studies in the Greek Imagination [Hardcover]

G. E. R. Lloyd (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0199253234 | ISBN-13: 978-0199253234 | Publication Date: April 10, 2003

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This study is impressive. Lloyd...emphasizes the diversity of classical approaches to disease as much as any common ground."--Times Literary Supplement

"This is a stimulating and erudite study of many often-neglected aspects of ancient Greek thought by an acclaimed master of the subject."--Bulletin of the History of Medicine

About the Author

G. E. R. Lloyd is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science at the University of Cambridge

Product Details

• Hardcover: 280 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (April 10, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0199253234
• ISBN-13: 978-0199253234
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,284,211 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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