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Sleep and Dreams in Early Greek Thought
Presocratic and Hippocratic Approaches
Inbunden, 2022
2512 kr
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This book examines how sleep and dreams were approached in early Greek thought, highlighting the theories of the Presocratic and Hippocratic writers on both phenomena as more varied, complex, and substantial than is usually credited.It explores how the Presocratic natural philosophers and early …
Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures
Sickness, Health, and Local Epistemologies
Häftad, 2022
727 kr
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Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures puts historical disease concepts in cross-cultural perspective, investigating perceptions, constructions and experiences of health and illness from antiquity to the seventeenth century.Focusing on the systematisation and classification of …
Hippocratic Oratory
The Poetics of Early Greek Medical Prose
Av James Cross
Häftad, 2020
727 kr
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On Ancient Medicine, On the Art, On Breaths, On the Nature of Human Beings and On the Sacred Disease are among the most well-known and sophisticated works of the Hippocratic Collection. The authors of these treatises were seeking to find means to express their arguments that built on authoritative …
Tertullian and the Unborn Child
Christian and Pagan Attitudes in Historical Perspective
Av Julian Barr
Häftad, 2020
727 kr
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Tertullian of Carthage was the earliest Christian writer to argue against abortion at length, and the first surviving Latin author to consider the unborn child in detail. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Tertullian’s attitude towards the foetus and embryo. Examining Tertullian’s …
Bodies of Evidence
Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future
Av Jane Draycott, Emma-Jayne Graham
Häftad, 2020
727 kr
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Dedicating objects to the divine was a central component of both Greek and Roman religion. Some of the most conspicuous offerings were shaped like parts of the internal or external human body: so-called ‘anatomical votives’. These archaeological artefacts capture the modern imagination, recalling …
Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt
Women’s Bodies, Society and Domestic Space
Av Ada Nifosi
Häftad, 2020
727 kr
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How did Greco-Roman Egyptian society perceive women’s bodies and how did it acknowledge women’s reproductive functions? Detailing women’s lives in Greco-Roman Egypt this monograph examines understudied aspects of women's lives such as their coming of age, social and religious taboos of menstruation …
Prostheses in Antiquity
Häftad, 2020
727 kr
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Today, a prosthesis is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, generally designed and assembled according to the individual’s appearance and functional needs with a view to being both as unobtrusive and as useful as possible. In classical antiquity, however, this was not necessarily …
Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy
From the Middle Republic to the Early Empire
Häftad, 2021
727 kr
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Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy examines the roles that the home, the garden and the members of the household (freeborn, freed and slave) played in the acquisition and maintenance of good physical and mental health and well-being. Focussing on the period from the middle Republic to …
Sleep and Dreams in Early Greek Thought
Presocratic and Hippocratic Approaches
Häftad, 2024
648 kr
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This book examines how sleep and dreams were approached in early Greek thought, highlighting the theories of the Presocratic and Hippocratic writers on both phenomena as more varied, complex, and substantial than is usually credited.It explores how the Presocratic natural philosophers and early …
Health, Lifestyle, and Elite Culture in Greek and Roman Times
Inbunden, 2026
2586 kr
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This book examines how elite literary authors conceived of the relationship between health and lifestyle in the Graeco-Roman world. Through careful analysis of a wide range of ancient literary sources, provided in both the original Greek and Latin and in English translation, the book explores what …
Becoming a Woman and Mother in Greco-Roman Egypt
Women’s Bodies, Society and Domestic Space
Av Ada Nifosi
Inbunden, 2019
2586 kr
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How did Greco-Roman Egyptian society perceive women’s bodies and how did it acknowledge women’s reproductive functions? Detailing women’s lives in Greco-Roman Egypt this monograph examines understudied aspects of women's lives such as their coming of age, social and religious taboos of menstruation …
Selling Pharmaka, Buying Health in Ancient Greece and Rome
Retail Therapy
Inbunden, 2026
2586 kr
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This book examines Greek and Roman pharmacology in its mercantile dimensions, studying the people who were involved in the trade, the places where they worked, and the consumers whom they tried to attract through promises of health.In the ancient Mediterranean, selling pharmacological substances …
Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures
Sickness, Health, and Local Epistemologies
Inbunden, 2020
2836 kr
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Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures puts historical disease concepts in cross-cultural perspective, investigating perceptions, constructions and experiences of health and illness from antiquity to the seventeenth century.Focusing on the systematisation and classification of …
Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy
From the Middle Republic to the Early Empire
Inbunden, 2019
2595 kr
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Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy examines the roles that the home, the garden and the members of the household (freeborn, freed and slave) played in the acquisition and maintenance of good physical and mental health and well-being. Focussing on the period from the middle Republic to …
Bodies of Evidence
Ancient Anatomical Votives Past, Present and Future
Av Jane Draycott, Emma-Jayne Graham
Inbunden, 2016
2595 kr
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Dedicating objects to the divine was a central component of both Greek and Roman religion. Some of the most conspicuous offerings were shaped like parts of the internal or external human body: so-called ‘anatomical votives’. These archaeological artefacts capture the modern imagination, recalling …
Tertullian and the Unborn Child
Christian and Pagan Attitudes in Historical Perspective
Av Julian Barr
Inbunden, 2017
2753 kr
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Tertullian of Carthage was the earliest Christian writer to argue against abortion at length, and the first surviving Latin author to consider the unborn child in detail. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Tertullian’s attitude towards the foetus and embryo. Examining Tertullian’s …
Hippocratic Oratory
The Poetics of Early Greek Medical Prose
Av James Cross
Inbunden, 2017
2595 kr
Lägg i varukorg
On Ancient Medicine, On the Art, On Breaths, On the Nature of Human Beings and On the Sacred Disease are among the most well-known and sophisticated works of the Hippocratic Collection. The authors of these treatises were seeking to find means to express their arguments that built on authoritative …
Prostheses in Antiquity
Inbunden, 2018
2595 kr
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Today, a prosthesis is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, generally designed and assembled according to the individual’s appearance and functional needs with a view to being both as unobtrusive and as useful as possible. In classical antiquity, however, this was not necessarily …
