Heroic measures : Hippocratic medicine in the making of Euripidean tragedy /

Heroic measures : Hippocratic medicine in the making of Euripidean tragedy /

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...

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Main Author: Kosak, Jennifer Clarke.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine 30.
Studies in Ancient Medicine Online, ISBN: 9789004380813.

Subjects:

Euripides > Knowledge > Medicine.
Hippocrates > Influence.
Euripides.
Hippocrates.
To 1500
Literature and medicine > Greece > History > To 1500.
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
Medicine in literature.
Tragedy.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literature and medicine.
Medicine.
Greece.
History.

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Call Number: PA3978 .K57 2004eb

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Jennifer Clarke Kosak
  • Tragedy, medicine and suffering in the fifth century B.C. /
  • Jennifer Clarke Kosak
  • The Healing Art /
  • Jennifer Clarke Kosak
  • Healers in Greek Tragedy /
  • Jennifer Clarke Kosak
  • The Story of Disease /
  • Jennifer Clarke Kosak
  • Causes of Disease in the Hippocratic Corpus /
  • Jennifer Clarke Kosak
  • Remedy in the Hippocratic Corpus /
  • Jennifer Clarke Kosak
  • Finding the Cause and Finding the Cure: Four Euripidean Plays /
  • Jennifer Clarke Kosak
  • Conclusion /
  • Jennifer Clarke Kosak
  • Bibliography /
  • Jennifer Clarke Kosak
  • Index nominum et rerum /
  • Jennifer Clarke Kosak
  • Index locorum /
  • Jennifer Clarke Kosak.