Experiencing pain in Imperial Greek culture / Daniel King.

First edition.

9780191847776 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

English

1 online resource.

DF78

938.09

Traditional accounts of ancient pain tend to focus either on philosophical or medical theories of pain or on Christian notions of suffering: this volume moves beyond these approaches to argue that pain in Imperial Greek culture was not a narrow physiological perception but must be understood within its broad personal, social, and emotional context.

Traditional accounts of ancient pain tend to focus either on philosophical or medical theories of pain or on Christian notions of suffering: this volume moves beyond these approaches to argue that pain in Imperial Greek culture was not a narrow physiological perception but must be understood within its broad personal, social, and emotional context.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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