Heroic Measures: Hippocratic Medicine in the Making of Euripidean TragedyBRILL, 17/07/2018 - 239 من الصفحات 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. |
المحتوى
Tragedy medicine and suffering in the fifth century BC | 1 |
Part I Healers and the Heroics of Medical Technê | 17 |
Part II From Cause to Cure | 91 |
Conclusion | 193 |
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action Aeschylus aidôs Amphitryon Ancient Medicine apostasis argues argument Athenian Athens attempt author of Breaths behavior body cause characters chorus context contrast Creon Creousa cure death describes discussion disorder divine drugs Electra Epidemics Eteocles Euripidean Euripides fifth century gods Greek healer healing Heracles Hesiod Hippocratic Corpus Hippocratic treatises Hippolytus homeopathic human iatros important issue Jason Jocasta Jouanna killing literature Lycus madness Mastronarde Medea medical technê medical writers Menelaus Menoeceus metabolê Moreover nature Nurse Nurse’s Oedipus Orestes pain patient Pentheus Phaedra pharmaka Phoenissae physical plague Plato play pollution Polyneices Prometheus Pylades rationalist healers regimen remedy role Sacred Disease scene seems sick situation Sophocles speech Staden stasis stresses suffering suggests taragmos Theban Thebes theme theory Theseus Thucydides Tiresias traditional tragedy tragic Tyndareus women words Zeus γρ κα κακν λλ μν οκ τ δ τε τν τος τς