Experiencing Pain in Imperial Greek Culture

Experiencing Pain in Imperial Greek Culture

Title: Experiencing Pain in Imperial Greek Culture
Author: Daniel King
Release: 2017-11-10
Kind: ebook
Genre: Fiction & Literature, Books, Historical Fiction, Nonfiction, Social Science, Professional & Technical, Medical, History, Ancient History
Size: 1849415
Traditional accounts of ancient pain tend to focus either on philosophical or medical theories of pain or on Christian notions of suffering: this volume moves beyond these approaches to argue that pain in Imperial Greek culture was not a narrow physiological perception but must be understood within its broad personal, social, and emotional context.