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Daniel King

Experiencing Pain in Imperial Greek Culture

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This volume investigates the history and nature of pain in Greek culture under the Roman Empire (50-250 CE). Traditional accounts of pain in this society have focused either on philosophical or medical theories of pain or on Christian notions of 'suffering'; fascination with the pained body has often been assumed to be a characteristic of Christian society, rather than Imperial culture in general. This book employs tools from contemporary cultural and literary theoryto examine the treatment of pain in a range of central cultural discourses from the first three centuries of the Empire, including medicine, religious writing, novelistic literatu… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-253849-9
  • EAN: 9780192538499
  • Produktnummer: 27255078
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 304 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 497 KB

Über den Autor


Daniel King is the Leventis Lecturer in the Impact of Greek Culture at the University of Exeter. As a cultural historian his work focuses primarily on the Greco-Roman world and he has written both on cultural interaction in the Hellenistic Near-East and on Greek literature and culture under the Roman Empire. He is particularly interested in the intersection between literature and the history of the body, historiography and cultural theory, and the reception of theclassical body in the modern world.

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