Experiencing Pain in Imperial Greek Culture

Traditional accounts of ancient pain tend to focus either on philosophical or medical theories of pain or on Christian notions of suffering: this volume moves beyond these approaches to argue that pain in Imperial Greek culture was not a narrow physiological perception but must be understood within its broad personal, social, and emotional context.

List of contents

• Frontmatter


• Abbreviations, Transliterations, and Editions


• 0: Introduction


• Part 1: Diagnosing and Treating Pain


• 1: Introduction: Diagnosing and Treating the Pained Body


• 2: Aretaios of Kappodokia


• 3: Galen


• 4: Conclusion: Diagnosis and Pain


• Part 2: Representing Pain


• 5: Introduction: Refiguring Pain Symptoms


• 6: Sore Feet and Tragedy in Plutarch and Lucian


• 7: Sacred Pain in Ailios Aristeides


• 8: Conclusion: Pain and Language Recalibrated


• Part 3: Viewing Trauma, Seeing Pain


• 9: Introduction: Ekphrasis, Trauma, and Viewing Pain


• 10: Philostratos' Prurient Gaze


• 11: Viewing and Emotional Conflict in Akhilleus Tatios


• 12: Viewing Trauma in Plutarch


• 13: Conclusion: What's in a View?


• 14: Conclusion


• Endmatter


• Bibliography


• Indices

About the author

Daniel King is the Leventis Lecturer in the Impact of Greek Culture at the University of Exeter. As a cultural historian his work focuses primarily on the Greco-Roman world and he has written both on cultural interaction in the Hellenistic Near-East and on Greek literature and culture under the Roman Empire. He is particularly interested in the intersection between literature and the history of the body, historiography and cultural theory, and the reception of the classical body in the modern world.

Summary

Traditional accounts of ancient pain tend to focus either on philosophical or medical theories of pain or on Christian notions of suffering: this volume moves beyond these approaches to argue that pain in Imperial Greek culture was not a narrow physiological perception but must be understood within its broad personal, social, and emotional context.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel King, Daniel (Leventis Lecturer in the Impact of G King, Daniel (Leventis Lecturer in the Impact of Greek Culture King, King Daniel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780198810513
• ISBN: 978-0-19-881051-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Oxford Classical Monographs; Oxford Classical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, History of Medicine, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Social and cultural history, Social and cultural anthropology, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory