Gebundenes Buch

Horror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond

Body, Affect, Concepts

Herausgeber: Thumiger, Chiara; Kazantzidis, George

Beschreibung

A conceptual and cultural history of 'horror' as effect, concept, experience and emotion in Graeco-Roman antiquity and beyond.

Autor

George Kazantzidis is Associate Professor of Latin at the University of Patras, Greece. He is author of Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in De rerum natura (2021), and co-editor of Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity (2023) and Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity (2022). Chiara Thumiger is Research Fellow within the Cluster of Excellence Roots at Kiel University, Germany, and Guest Research Fellow at Humboldt University, Berlin. She is author of Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought (2023), A History of the Mind and Mental Health in Classical Greek Medical Thought (2017) and Hidden Paths: Notions of Self, Tragic Characterization: Euripides' Bacchae (2007).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350380646
• ISBN-10: 1350380644
• Artikelnr.: 72487787