Health in Antiquity

Name: Health in Antiquity
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ISBN: 9780415220651

ISBN-10: 0415220653

ISBN-13: 9780415220651

Edition: 2004

Authors: Helen King, Helen King

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Is health the absence of disease, or a more positive state of happiness and well-being? How healthy were people in ancient Greece and Rome, and how did they think about maintaining and restoring their health? Answers to these and many previously untouched questions are dealt with by renowned ancient historians, classical scholars, and archaeologists. Using a multi-disciplined approach, the contributors assess the issues surrounding health in the Greco-Roman world from prehistory to Christian late antiquity.

Book details

List price: $160.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/19/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 298
Size: 7.24" wide x 8.58" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Introduction: What is health?



Disease and the Prehistory of the Aegean




Health and Disease in Greece: Past, present and future




Health in Hellenistic and Roman Times: The case studies of Paphos




Health and the Life Course at Herculaneum and Pompeii




Holding on to Health? Bone surgery and instrumentation in the Roman empire




' Without you No One is Happy': The cult of health in ancient




Hygieia at Dinner and at the Symposium




Women's Health and Recovery in the Hippocratic Corpus




Drama and Healing: Ancient and modern




'Curing' Disability




The Salubriousness of the Roman City




Buildings for Health: Then and now




The Health of the Spiritual Athlete




'Carrying on the work of the Earlier Firm': Doctors, medicine and Christianity in the Thaumata of Sophronius of Jerusalem