This original and lively book explores Greek ideas about health and disease and their influence on Greek thought. Fundamental issues such as causation and responsibility, purification and pollution, mind-body relations and gender differences, authority and the expert and who can challenge them, reality and appearances, good government, happiness, and good and evil themselves are deeply implicated. Using the evidence not just from Greek medical theory and practice but also from epic, lyric, tragedy, historiography, philosophy, and religion, G. E. R. Lloyd offers the first comprehensive account of the influence of Greek thought about health and disease on the Greek imagination.

About the Author
G. E. R. Lloyd is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science at the University of Cambridge

Reviews
This study is impressive. Lloyd ... emphasizes the diversity of classical approaches to disease as much as any common ground. * Rebecca Flemming, TLS *



Book Information
ISBN 9780199253234
Author G. E. R. Lloyd
Format Hardback
Page Count 280
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 436g
Dimensions(mm) 223mm * 143mm * 20mm