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Pain and pleasure in classical times / edited by W.V. Harris.

Other author/creatorHarris, William V. (William Vernon), editor.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.
Description1 online resource.
Supplemental Content EBSCOhost
Subject(s)
Series Columbia studies in the classical tradition ; volume 44
Columbia studies in the classical tradition ; volume 44. ^A89024
Contents Intro; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction: Pain and Pleasure as a Field of Historical Study; Chapter 2 Post-primordial Pleasures: The Pleasures of the Flesh and the Question of Origins; Chapter 3 Must We Suffer in Order to Stay Healthy? Pleasure and Pain in Ancient Medical Literature; Chapter 4 Pain and Medicine in the Classical World; Chapter 5 Pleasure and the Medicus in Roman Literature; Caroline Wazer; Chapter 6 What is Hedonism?; Chapter 7 Pleasure, Pain, and the Unity of the Soul in Plato's Protagoras; Chapter 8 Lucretian Pleasure
Contents Chapter 9 Joy, Flow, and the Sage's Experience in Seneca; Chapter 10 Alexander of Aphrodisias on Pleasure and Pain in Aristotle; Chapter 11 On Grief and Pain; Chapter 12 Nero in Hell: Plutarch's De Sera Numinis Vindicta; Bibliography; Index
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionDescription based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Issued in other formPrint version: Pain and pleasure in classical times Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018 9789004379497
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2018041918
ISBN9789004379503 (electronic bk.)
ISBN9004379509 (electronic bk.)
Standard identifier# 10.1163/9789004379503

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