Pain and pleasure in classical times / edited by W.V. Harris.
| Other author | Harris, William V. (William Vernon), editor. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Pain and pleasure in classical times Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018 9789004379497 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018041918 |
| ISBN | 9789004379503 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9004379509 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard identifier# | 10.1163/9789004379503 |
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