Research Catalog

Title

Pain and pleasure in classical times / edited by W. V. Harris.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Harris, William V. (William Vernon)

Description

xiii, 265 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times attempts to blaze a trail for the cross-disciplinary humanistic study of pain and pleasure, with literature scholars, historians and philosophers all setting out to understand how the Greeks and Romans experienced, managed and reasoned about the sensations and experiences they felt as painful or pleasurable. The book is intended to provoke discussion of a wide range of problems in the cultural history of antiquity. It addresses both the physicality of eros and illness, and physiological and philosophical doctrines, especially hedonism and anti-hedonism in their various forms. Fine points of terminology (Greek is predictably rich in this area) receive careful attention. Authors in question run from Homer to (among others) the Hippocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Seneca, Plutarch, Galen and the Aristotle-commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias.

Series Statement

Columbia studies in the classical tradition ; volume 44

Uniform Title

Columbia studies in the classical tradition ; v. 44.

Subjects

• Pleasure in literature
• Pain in literature
• Philosophy, Ancient
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Classical literature > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction : Pain and Pleasure as a Field of Historical Study / W. V. Harris -- Post-primordial Pleasures : the Pleasures of the Flesh and the Question of Origins / James Davidson -- Must We Suffer in Order to Stay Healthy? Pleasure and Pain in Ancient Medical Literature / Véronique Boudon-Millot -- Pain and Medicine in the Classical World / W. V. Harris -- Pleasure and the Medicus in Roman Literature / Caroline Wazer -- What is Hedonism? / Katja Maria Vogt -- Pleasure, Pain, and the Unity of the Soul in Plato's Protagoras / Wolfgang-Rainer Mann and Vanessa de Harven -- Lucretian Pleasure / Elizabeth Asmis -- Joy, Flow, and the Sage's Experience in Seneca / Sam Mc Vane -- Alexander of Aphrodisias on Pleasure and Pain in Aristotle / Wei Cheng -- On Grief and Pain / David Konstan -- Nero in Hell : Plutarch's De Sera Numinis Vindicta / Marcus Folch -- Bibliography -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 19-1367

ISBN

• 9789004379497
• 9004379495

LCCN

2018034738

OCLC

1042107674

Title

Pain and pleasure in classical times / edited by W. V. Harris.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Columbia studies in the classical tradition ; volume 44

Columbia studies in the classical tradition ; v. 44.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Harris, William V. (William Vernon), editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Pain and pleasure in classical times Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018 9789004379503 (DLC) 2018041918

Research Call Number

JFE 19-1367