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Therapoetics after Actium : Narrative, Medicine, and Authority in Augustan Epic /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal:	Hawkins, Julia Nelson (Autor)
Formato:	Electrónico eBook
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
Colección:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:	Virgil. Virgil > Criticism and interpretation. Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Metamorphoses. Metamorphoses (Ovid) Medicine in literature. Latin poetry. Greek poetry. Poesie grecque > Histoire et critique. Medecine dans la litterature. Poesie latine > Histoire et critique. Medicine in Literature Greek poetry > History and criticism. Latin poetry > History and criticism. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:	Texto completo

Tabla de Contenidos:

Medicine and epic: an overview
Hellenistic therapoetics: the transformation of Greek epic
From bucolics to bougonia: plague in Virgil
Ovid and plague in the Metamorphoses
Virgil and medical botany: Aeneid 12 and Roman therapy
Gynecology and the state in the Metamorphoses
Epilogue: the legacy of therapoetics in war and epic: medicine in the Roman revolution and Fracastoro's syphilis.