This book demonstrates the importance of Greek medical thought in the work of Euripides. Part I shows the significance of the healing figure in Euripidean drama; Part II analyzes the role of traditional and rationalist remedies in the construction of...
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This book demonstrates the importance of Greek medical thought in the work of Euripides. Part I shows the significance of the healing figure in Euripidean drama; Part II analyzes the role of traditional and rationalist remedies in the construction of Euripidean plots and arguments
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-209) and indexes
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Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Tragedy, medicine and suffering in the fifth century B.C; Chapter One: The Healing Art; Chapter Two: Healers in Greek Tragedy; Chapter Three: The Story of Disease; Chapter Four: Causes of Disease in the Hippocratic Corpus; Chapter Five: Remedy in the Hippocratic Corpus; Chapter Six: Finding the Cause and Finding the Cure: Four Euripidean Plays; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index nominum et rerum; Index locorum