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Medicine and paradoxography in the ancient world /
The present volume offers a systematic discussion of the complex relationship between medicine and paradoxography in the ancient world. For a long time, the relationship between the two has been assumed to be virtually non-existent. Paradoxography is concerned with disclosing a world full of marvels...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ;
v. 81. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction: Medicine and Paradoxography in Dialogue / Kazantzidis, George
- Technological Wonder in Herodotus' Histories / Gerolemou, Maria
- Paradoxography and the pseudo- Aristotelian Problemata / Oikonomopoulou, Katerina
- In the Realm of the Two-Headed Snake / Overduin, Floris
- Wondrous Healings in Greek Epigrams (and Their Parodic Counterparts) / Floridi, Lucia
- Beyond the Limits of the Human Body / Doroszewska, Julia
- Phlegon's Paradoxical Physiology / Shannon-Henderson, Kelly E.
- Galen's Language of Wonder / Lightfoot, Jessica
- Literary Remedies and Rhetorical Prescriptions in Aelius Aristides / Petridou, Georgia
- Unknowable Questions and Paradoxography in ps.-Alexander of Aphrodisias' Medical Puzzles and Natural Problems / Meeusen, Michiel
- List of Contributors
- Index Rerum et Nominum
- Index Locorum