商品簡介
Revising her 1994 Ph.D. dissertation for the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Kosak (classics, Bowdoin College) explores Greek beliefs about suffering and the technology of healing in the fifth century BCE. She focuses on aspects of suffering and healing in two corpora of literature, the works of the playwright Euripides and of the Hippocratic writers on medicine, but also draws on material from other authors of the period. Her argument is that Euripidean tragedy, in its representations of the body in pain, also draws heavily upon ideas and images from the world of medicine; and that both medicine and tragedy drew upon a common stock of ideas in Greek culture about the role of physical suffering and the nature of healing. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Jennifer Clarke Kosak, Ph.D. (1994) in Classical Philology, University of Michigan, is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Bowdoin College. She has published several articles on tragedy and illness.
