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Experiencing Pain in Imperial Greek Culture (Hardcover)
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Experiencing Pain in Imperial Greek Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
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This volume investigates the history and nature of pain in Greek
culture under the Roman Empire (50-250 CE). Traditional accounts of
pain in this society have focused either on philosophical or
medical theories of pain or on Christian notions of 'suffering';
fascination with the pained body has often been assumed to be a
characteristic of Christian society, rather than Imperial culture
in general. This book employs tools from contemporary cultural and
literary theory to examine the treatment of pain in a range of
central cultural discourses from the first three centuries of the
Empire, including medicine, religious writing, novelistic
literature, and rhetorical ekphrasis. It argues instead that pain
was approached from an holistic perspective: rather than treating
pain as a narrowly defined physiological perception, it was
conceived as a type of embodied experience in which ideas about the
body's physiology, the representation and articulation of its
perceptions, as well as the emotional and cognitive impact of pain
were all important facets of what it meant to be in pain. By
bringing this conception to light, scholars are able to redefine
our understanding of the social and emotional fabric of Imperial
society and help to reposition its relationship with the emergence
of Christian society in late antiquity.
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