Heroic measures : Hippocratic medicine in the making of Euripidean tragedy / / by Jennifer Clarke Kosak
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| Autore: |
Kosak Jennifer Clarke
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| Titolo: |
Heroic measures : Hippocratic medicine in the making of Euripidean tragedy / / by Jennifer Clarke Kosak
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| Pubblicazione: | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2004 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (239 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 882/.01 |
| Soggetto topico: | Literature and medicine - Greece - History - To 1500 |
| Medicine, Greek and Roman | |
| Medicine in literature | |
| Tragedy | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-209) and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Preliminary Material / Jennifer Clarke Kosak -- Tragedy, medicine and suffering in the fifth century B.C. / Jennifer Clarke Kosak -- The Healing Art / Jennifer Clarke Kosak -- Healers in Greek Tragedy / Jennifer Clarke Kosak -- The Story of Disease / Jennifer Clarke Kosak -- Causes of Disease in the Hippocratic Corpus / Jennifer Clarke Kosak -- Remedy in the Hippocratic Corpus / Jennifer Clarke Kosak -- Finding the Cause and Finding the Cure: Four Euripidean Plays / Jennifer Clarke Kosak -- Conclusion / Jennifer Clarke Kosak -- Bibliography / Jennifer Clarke Kosak -- Index nominum et rerum / Jennifer Clarke Kosak -- Index locorum / Jennifer Clarke Kosak. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book demonstrates the importance of Greek medical thought in the work of Euripides. The first part of the book argues for the significance of the healing figure in Euripidean drama, while the second part analyzes the role of traditional and rationalist healing strategies in the construction of Euripidean plots and arguments. The work will be of interest to those pursuing studies in Greek drama, Greek intellectual history and Greek medicine. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Heroic measures |
| ISBN: | 1-280-85974-1 |
| 9786610859740 | |
| 1-4294-2789-2 | |
| 90-474-0595-1 | |
| 1-4337-0766-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826501403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in ancient medicine ; ; v. 30.