In the Grip of Disease: Studies in the Greek Imagination

This original and lively book uses texts from ancient medicine, epic, lyric, tragedy, historiography, philosophy, and religion to explore the influence of Greek ideas on health and disease on Greek thought. Fundamental issues are deeply implicated: causation and responsibility, purification and pollution, the mind-body relationship and gender differences, authority and the expert, reality and appearances, good government, and good and evil themselves.


Author: G. E. R. Lloyd
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/07/2004
Pages: 258
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.46w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780199275878

About the Author

G. E. R. Lloyd is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science at the University of Cambridge.

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