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A conceptual and cultural history of 'horror' as effect, concept, experience and emotion in Graeco-Roman antiquity and beyond.
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This volume looks into the De Rerum Natura's reception in prose writers, including Cicero, Celsus, Seneca the Younger, Quintilian, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch and Lactantius. Building on the vast scholarship…
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This volume explores the ways in which memories intersect with emotions in a wide range of ancient scripts that we find in the literature, inscriptions, or material culture of Greek…
This volume introduces scholarly discussion of emotions' importance for ancient medicine. Although individual emotions and emotion scripts in literary and non-literary sources of evidence have attracted much scholarly attention in…
The present volume offers a systematic discussion of the complex relationship between medicine and paradoxography in the ancient world. By moving beyond the binary opposition between ‘rational’ and ‘non-rational’ modes…
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George Kazantzidis
The present book challenges the standard scholarly view according to which disease (morbus) in the De rerum natura is simply a problem to be solved and then dispensed with; due…
This volume introduces scholarly discussion of emotions’ importance for ancient medicine. Although individual emotions and emotion scripts in literary and non-literary sources of evidence have attracted much scholarly attention in…
How did ancient Greeks and Romans conceive hope? This volume - the first part of the TCSV inquires on ancient emotions - investigates the ideas behind Greek elpis and Roman…
Explores the ways in which the human body and the world of machines and technological artefacts intersected in the ancient world. Traces the origins of the body-machine interface from Homer's…
The chapters of this volume aim to examine aspects of sexual practices in Greek and Roman antiquity: i.e. the acts of sexual intercourse, the erogenous capacities and genital functions of…
