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1 online resource (304 pages) |
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Oxford Classical Monographs |
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Oxford classical monographs.
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Cover -- Experiencing Pain in Imperial Greek Culture -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations, Transliterations, and Editions -- Introduction -- 1. PAIN EXPERIENCE -- a. Imagining a/the/Every Body -- b. Pain and Language -- c. Pain, Understanding, and Feelings -- 2. REIMAGINING THE IMPERIAL PERIOD -- Part 1: Diagnosing and Treating Pain -- 1: Diagnosing and Treating the Pained Body -- 1. DIAGNOSIS, NARRATIVE, AND INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS -- 2: Aretaios of Kappodokia -- 1. PAIN AS A SENSORY PHENOMENON |
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2. PAIN SYMPTOMS AND THEIR CATEGORIZATION3. DEVELOPING MODELS OF EXPERIENCE -- 3: Galen -- 1. PAIN AND THE BODY -- 2. PATIENT SENSATIONS AND REPORTAGE -- 3. NARRATING AND EXPERIENCING PAIN -- 4: Diagnosis and Pain -- Part 2: Representing Pain -- 5: Refiguring Pain Symptoms -- 1. REWRITING PAIN SYMPTOMS -- 6: Sore Feet and Tragedy in Plutarch and Lucian -- 1. PLUTARCH, PAIN, AND THE FRAGILE BODY -- 2. LUCIANâ#x80;#x99;S PODAGRA -- 7: Sacred Pain in Ailios Aristeides -- 1. PHYSIOLOGICAL PAIN SYMPTOMS -- 2. NARRATING PAIN -- a. Rephrasing Case-History Contexts |
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B. The Case-History and Voicec. Revealing the Anatomy of the Body -- d. Belief and Certainty -- 3. EMOTIONAL AND HEROIC SUFFERING -- 8: Pain and Language Recalibrated -- Part 3: Viewing Trauma, Seeing Pain -- 9: Ekphrasis, Trauma, and Viewing Pain -- 1. VIEWING THE BODY AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF EMBODIED PAIN EXPERIENCE -- 2. THE WOUND, GESTURE, AND â#x80;#x98;SEEINGâ#x80;#x99; PAIN -- 3. FRAMING EMOTIONAL RESPONSESTO TRAUMA -- 10: Philostratosâ#x80;#x99; Prurient Gaze -- 1. MENOIKEUS AND OTHER DYING HEROES -- 2. ANTILOKHOS -- 3. PANTHEIA |
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11: Viewing and Emotional Conflict in Akhilleus Tatios1. VIEWING PROMETHEUS -- 2. DISPLAYING LEUKIPPEâ#x80;#x99;S TORTURES -- 12: Viewing Trauma in Plutarch -- 1. DESENSITIZATION AND THE ETHICAL FAILURES OF MAN -- 2. SHOCKING THE READER -- 3. EKPHRASIS AND CONFLICTED CONSUMPTION -- 13: Whatâ#x80;#x99;s in a View? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- General Index |
| Summary |
Traditional accounts of ancient pain tend to focus either on philosophical or medical theories of pain or on Christian notions of suffering: this volume moves beyond these approaches to argue that pain in Imperial Greek culture was not a narrow physiological perception but must be understood within its broad personal, social, and emotional context |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Pain -- Social aspects
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Civilization
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Civilization -- Greek influences
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Pain -- Social aspects
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Greece -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057040
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Rome -- Civilization -- Greek influences.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115097
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Greece
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Rome (Empire)
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192538482 |
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0192538489 |
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9780191847776 |
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0191847771 |
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