Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times

This book 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 and reasoned about the sensations and experiences they felt as painful or pleasurable.

About the author

W. V. Harris is the Shepherd Professor of History at Columbia University. His most recent books have been Roman Power: a Thousand Years of Empire (Cambridge U.P., 2016) and the edited volume Popular Medicine in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Explorations (Brill, 2016). Contributors are: Elizabeth Asmis, Véronique Boudon-Millot, Wei Cheng, James Davidson, Vanessa de Harven, Marcus Folch, W. V. Harris, David Konstan, Wolfgang Mann, Sam McVane, Katja Maria Vogt, Caroline Wazer.

Product details

• Assisted by: William V Harris (Editor), William V. Harris (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.09.2018
• EAN: 9789004379497
• ISBN: 978-90-04-37949-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Series: Columbia Studies in the Classi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General