Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times

Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times
Author: William V. Harris
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2018-09-04
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9004379509


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This book attempts to blaze a trail for the cross-disciplinary humanistic study of pain and pleasure, with literature scholars, historians and philosophers all setting out to understand how the Greeks and Romans experienced and reasoned about the sensations and experiences they felt as painful or pleasurable.


Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: William Vernon Harris
Categories: Classical literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher:

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This book attempts to blaze a trail for the cross-disciplinary humanistic study of pain and pleasure, with literature scholars, historians and philosophers all
Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times
Language: en
Pages: 279
Authors: William V. Harris
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-04 - Publisher: BRILL

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This book attempts to blaze a trail for the cross-disciplinary humanistic study of pain and pleasure, with literature scholars, historians and philosophers all
Pleasure in Ancient Greek Philosophy
Language: en
Pages: 313
Authors: David Wolfsdorf
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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An examination of ancient Greek philosophical conceptions of pleasure, which is the first book to compare them to contemporary conceptions.
Tragic Pleasure from Homer to Plato
Language: en
Pages: 229
Authors: Rana Saadi Liebert
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book offers a resolution of the paradox posed by the pleasure of tragedy by returning to its earliest articulations in archaic Greek poetry and its subsequ
Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Ancient Philosophy
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Pierre Destrée
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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"Ancient philosophers were very interested in the themes of laughter, humor and comedy. They theorized about laughter and its causes, moralized about the approp