Title | : | Experiencing Pain in Imperial Greek Culture |
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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. |