Experiencing Pain in Imperial Greek Culture

Author:   Daniel King (Leventis Lecturer in the Impact of Greek Culture, Leventis Lecturer in the Impact of Greek Culture, University of Exeter)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198810513


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   16 November 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Daniel King (Leventis Lecturer in the Impact of Greek Culture, Leventis Lecturer in the Impact of Greek Culture, University of Exeter)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9780198810513


ISBN 10:   0198810512
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   16 November 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Frontmatter Abbreviations, Transliterations, and Editions 0: Introduction Part 1: Diagnosing and Treating Pain 1: Introduction: Diagnosing and Treating the Pained Body 2: Aretaios of Kappodokia 3: Galen 4: Conclusion: Diagnosis and Pain Part 2: Representing Pain 5: Introduction: Refiguring Pain Symptoms 6: Sore Feet and Tragedy in Plutarch and Lucian 7: Sacred Pain in Ailios Aristeides 8: Conclusion: Pain and Language Recalibrated Part 3: Viewing Trauma, Seeing Pain 9: Introduction: Ekphrasis, Trauma, and Viewing Pain 10: Philostratos' Prurient Gaze 11: Viewing and Emotional Conflict in Akhilleus Tatios 12: Viewing Trauma in Plutarch 13: Conclusion: What's in a View? 14: Conclusion Endmatter Bibliography Indices

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Daniel King is the Leventis Lecturer in the Impact of Greek Culture at the University of Exeter. As a cultural historian his work focuses primarily on the Greco-Roman world and he has written both on cultural interaction in the Hellenistic Near-East and on Greek literature and culture under the Roman Empire. He is particularly interested in the intersection between literature and the history of the body, historiography and cultural theory, and the reception of the classical body in the modern world.

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