{"product_id":"pain-narratives-in-greco-roman-writings-studies-in-the-representation-of-physical-and-mental-suffering-9789004549487","title":"Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy is it so difficult to talk about pain? As we do today, the Greeks and Romans struggled to communicate their pain: this required a rich and subtle vocabulary which had to be developed over time. Pain Narratives traces the development of this language in literary, philosophical, and medical texts from across antiquity: poets, physicians, and philosophers contributed to an ever-growing lexicon to articulate their own and others’ feelings. The essays within this volume uncover the expanding Greco-Roman vocabulary of pain, analyse the medical discussions on pain symptoms, and explore the religious reinterpretations of pain concepts in late antiquity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  List of Figures and Tables  Abbreviations  Notes on Contributors    1 Introduction: A New Approach to Pain in Antiquity   Jacqueline Clarke, Daniel King and Han Baltussen    2 Labelling Pain: Early Greek Concepts from Homer to the Hellenistic Era   Han Baltussen    3 Painful Drinks: Poison and Pain Experience in Nicander’s Alexipharmaca   Daniel King    4 Emotional Persuasion: Communicating Pain in Seneca the Elder’s Controversiae   Sarah Lawrence    5 Is Pain Natural? A Study of Stoic Philosophy   Jean-Christophe Courtil    6 Pain with a PR Problem: Narrating Gout-Induced Pain in the Second Sophistic   Georgia Petridou    7 Perceiving and Diagnosing Pain according to Archigenes of Apamea   Orly Lewis    8 Between Aristotle and Stoicism: Alexander of Aphrodisias on the Varieties of Pain   Wei Cheng    9 Traumatic Pain and the Transformation of Identity: Prudentius and Ovid Compared   Jacqueline Clarke    10 Ignatius of Antioch’s Anticipation of Torture: An Alternative Reading of Romans 4–5   Fiona McMeekin    11 The Bishop’s Case Book: Augustine on Pain   Gillian Clark    12 Affective Lexica between Hellenistic Philosophy and Christian Theology   Jonathan Zecher    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210869989719,"sku":"9789004549487","price":104.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pain-narratives-in-greco-roman-writings-studies-in-the-representation-of-physical-and-mental-suffering-9789004549487","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}