Pain narratives in Greco-Roman writings : studies in the representation of physical and mental suffering
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Pain narratives in Greco-Roman writings : studies in the representation of physical and mental suffering
（Studies in ancient medicine, v. 58）
Brill, c2023
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Why is it so difficult to talk about pain? As we do today, the Greeks and Romans struggled to communicate their pain: this required a rich and subtle vocabulary which had to be developed over time. Pain Narratives traces the development of this language in literary, philosophical, and medical texts from across antiquity: poets, physicians, and philosophers contributed to an ever-growing lexicon to articulate their own and others’ feelings. The essays within this volume uncover the expanding Greco-Roman vocabulary of pain, analyse the medical discussions on pain symptoms, and explore the religious reinterpretations of pain concepts in late antiquity.
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Preface
List of Figures and Tables
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Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: A New Approach to Pain in Antiquity
Jacqueline Clarke, Daniel King and Han Baltussen
2 Labelling Pain: Early Greek Concepts from Homer to the Hellenistic Era
Han Baltussen
3 Painful Drinks: Poison and Pain Experience in Nicander’s Alexipharmaca
Daniel King
4 Emotional Persuasion: Communicating Pain in Seneca the Elder’s Controversiae
Sarah Lawrence
5 Is Pain Natural? A Study of Stoic Philosophy
Jean-Christophe Courtil
6 Pain with a PR Problem: Narrating Gout-Induced Pain in the Second Sophistic
Georgia Petridou
7 Perceiving and Diagnosing Pain according to Archigenes of Apamea
Orly Lewis
8 Between Aristotle and Stoicism: Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Varieties of Pain
Wei Cheng
9 Traumatic Pain and the Transformation of Identity: Prudentius and Ovid Compared
Jacqueline Clarke
10 Ignatius of Antioch’s Anticipation of Torture: An Alternative Reading of Romans 4–5
Fiona McMeekin
11 The Bishop’s Case Book: Augustine on Pain
Gillian Clark
12 Affective Lexica between Hellenistic Philosophy and Christian Theology
Jonathan Zecher
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