Overview

Why 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.

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Author:   Jacqueline Clarke ,  Daniel King ,  Han Baltussen
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   58
Weight:   0.669kg
ISBN:  

9789004549487

ISBN 10:   900454948
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   06 July 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface 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

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Jacqueline Clarke, Ph.D. (1999), University of Adelaide, is Senior Lecturer in Classics at that university. She has published a monograph and many articles on Roman poetry, including ‘Female Pain in Prudentius’ Peristephanon’ Classical Quarterly 71 (2021) 386-401. Daniel King, D.Phil. (2011), Oxford University, is Senior Leventis Lecturer in the Impact of Greek Culture at Exeter University. He has published widely on the body in antiquity, including Pain Experience in Imperial Greek Literature (OUP, 2018). Han Baltussen, Ph.D. (1993), Utrecht University, is W.W. Hughes Professor of Classics at the University of Adelaide (South Australia). He has published many articles, translations and books on the ancient philosophical traditions, including The Peripatetics. Aristotle’s Heirs (Routledge, 2016). Contributors are: Han Baltussen, Daniel King, Sarah Lawrence, Jean-Christophe Courtil, Georgia Petridou, Orly Lewis, Wei Cheng, Jacqueline Clarke, Fiona McMeekin, Gillian Clark, Jonathan Zecher.

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