Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Pain and Pleasure as a Field of Historical Study -- Chapter 2 Post-primordial Pleasures: The Pleasures of the Flesh and the Question of Origins -- Chapter 3 Must We Suffer in Order to Stay Healthy? Pleasure and Pain in Ancient Medical Literature -- Chapter 4 Pain and Medicine in the Classical World -- Chapter 5 Pleasure and the Medicus in Roman LiteratureCaroline Wazer -- Chapter 6 What is Hedonism? -- Chapter 7 Pleasure, Pain, and the Unity of the Soul in Plato's Protagoras -- Chapter 8 Lucretian Pleasure -- Chapter 9 Joy, Flow, and the Sage's Experience in Seneca -- Chapter 10 Alexander of Aphrodisias on Pleasure and Pain in Aristotle -- Chapter 11 On Grief and Pain -- Chapter 12 Nero in Hell: Plutarch's De Sera Numinis Vindicta -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book attempts to blaze a trail for the cross-disciplinary humanistic study of pain and pleasure, with literature scholars, historians and philosophers all setting out to understand how the Greeks and Romans experienced and reasoned about the sensations and experiences they felt as painful or pleasurable.

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