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Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times

English · Hardback

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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.

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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

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