Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 265 Seiten)
ISBN:
9789004379503
Series Statement:
Columbia studies in the classical tradition volume 44
Content:
Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Preface /W. V. Harris -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Pain and Pleasure as a Field of Historical Study /W. V. Harris -- Post-primordial Pleasures: The Pleasures of the Flesh and the Question of Origins /James Davidson -- Must We Suffer in Order to Stay Healthy? Pleasure and Pain in Ancient Medical Literature /Véronique Boudon-Millot -- Pain and Medicine in the Classical World* /W. V. Harris -- Pleasure and the Medicus in Roman Literature /Caroline Wazer -- What is Hedonism?1 /Katja Maria Vogt -- Pleasure, Pain, and the Unity of the Soul in Plato’s Protagoras /Wolfgang-Rainer Mann and Vanessa de Harven -- Lucretian Pleasure /Elizabeth Asmis -- Joy, Flow, and the Sage’s Experience in Seneca1 /Sam McVane -- Alexander of Aphrodisias on Pleasure and Pain in Aristotle1 /Wei Cheng -- On Grief and Pain1 /David Konstan -- Nero in Hell: Plutarch’s De Sera Numinis Vindicta1 /Marcus Folch -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.
Content:
Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times 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, managed and reasoned about the sensations and experiences they felt as painful or pleasurable. The book is intended to provoke discussion of a wide range of problems in the cultural history of antiquity. It addresses both the physicality of erôs and illness, and physiological and philosophical doctrines, especially hedonism and anti-hedonism in their various forms. Fine points of terminology (Greek is predictably rich in this area) receive careful attention. Authors in question run from Homer to (among others) the Hippocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Seneca, Plutarch, Galen and the Aristotle-commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
"... the fruit of a conference that took place at Columbia's Center for the Ancient Mediterranean on April 17th and 18th, 2015" - Preface
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004379497
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times (Veranstaltung : 2015 : New York, NY) Pain and pleasure in classical times Leiden : Brill, 2018 ISBN 9789004379497
Language:
English
Keywords:
Antike
;
Literatur
;
Schmerz
;
Freude
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1163/9789004379503
Author information:
Harris, William V. 1938-
