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Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought

(Fifth Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

By: Chiara Thumiger

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Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought

(Fifth Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

By: Chiara Thumiger

The first full history of a disease which originated in ancient Greece and has ramifications for contemporary ideas about insanity.

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100924132X

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The Life and Health of the Mind in Classical Greek Medical Thought

By: Chiara Thumiger

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The first substantial history of psychological thought in Classical Greek medicine, showing the relevance of ancient ideas to modern debates.

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1107176018

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Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought

(Fifth Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

By: Chiara Thumiger

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Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought

(Fifth Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

By: Chiara Thumiger

From an archaic, unfamiliar and Greek-sounding disease described by the Hippocratics, 'phrenitis', to meningitis, stress syndrome and delirium: this book takes the reader on a journey through key phases of Western ideas about human physiology and mental health and reflects on loss and survival in the history of disease.

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1009241354

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A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought

By: Chiara Thumiger

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The Hippocratic texts and other contemporary medical sources have often been overlooked in discussions of ancient psychology. They have been considered to be more mechanical and less detailed than poetic and philosophical representations, as well as later medical texts such as those of Galen. This book does justice to these early medical accounts by demonstrating their richness and sophistication, their many connections with other contemporary cultural products and the indebtedness of later medicine to their observations. In addition, it reads these sources not only as archaeological documents but also in the light of methodological discussions that are fundamental to the histories of psychiatry and psychology. As a result of this approach, the book will be important for scholars of these disciplines as well as those of Greek literature and philosophy, strongly advocating the relevance of ancient ideas to modern debates.

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1316813231

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9781316813232

Hidden Paths

Self and Characterization in Greek Tragedy : Euripides' Bacchae

By: Chiara Thumiger

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Self and Characterization in Greek Tragedy : Euripides' Bacchae

By: Chiara Thumiger

Hidden paths analyses the representation of character in Greek tragedy, focusing on one of the most important and controversial theatre plays of all times the Bacchae. Euripides' last play has always been a favourite, enjoying an enormous success for centuries on and off the stage. This book argues that in the representation of characters in the play we can find a development in the view of self and representation of man. This development, which is also to be partly traced in the works of Sophocles and in earlier plays by Euripides, finds a fuller expression in the Bacchae and culminates in the catastrophe of ignorance and incommunicability which has Pentheus at its centre. The construction of character in the text and the view of self which it entails are explored through a meticulous analysis of keywords, while verbal usage, imagery and style are exposed as the very 'stuff' of characterisation. The book uncovers the 'hidden paths' along which human life is experienced in the play and through which human characterisation materializes from the fabric of the text.

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University of London Press

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1905670133

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9781905670130

Performances and Audiences in Pindar's Sicilian Victory Odes

By: A. D. Morrison

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Performances and Audiences in Pindar's Sicilian Victory Odes

By: A. D. Morrison

Pindar's fifteen victory odes for Sicilian victors include some of Pindar's most impressive and widely admired poems, such as the first two Olympians and first three Pythians. The majority of the Sicilian odes date from between about 476 to 466 BC and were composed to celebrate the victories of the great tyrants of Sicily Hieron of Syracuse and Theron of Akragas or their families or courtiers at the crown games. The Sicilian tyrants made spectacular use of their wealth and power in competing in equestrian events at the games and in commissioning Pindar and Bacchylides to celebrate their victories in song. This book examines the Sicilian odes of Pindar as a group, investigating the ways in which they interact and exploit their overlapping and intersecting audiences. It studies the different performances of Pindar's odes (including reperformances subsequent to the first performance) and the audiences of these performances, and argues that these have important consequences for our view of the role victory odes played in the self-display of the Sicilian tyrannies to one another and the wider Greek world, the intertexts between the odes, the 'conventional' material in Pindar and the ways in which Pindar fulfils his promise of lasting fame for his patrons.

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1905670095

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Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought

Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought

The Life and Health of the Mind in Classical Greek Medical Thought

The Life and Health of the Mind in Classical Greek Medical Thought

Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought

Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought

A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought

A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought

Hidden Paths

Hidden Paths

Performances and Audiences in Pindar's Sicilian Victory Odes

Performances and Audiences in Pindar's Sicilian Victory Odes

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