Il "Dolore" in Ippocrate

Marzullo, Benedetto

doi:10.2307/20546614

Quaderni Urbinati Di Cultura Classica

1999

DOI: 10.2307/20546614

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Il "Dolore" in Ippocrate

Benedetto Marzullo¹

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The Semantics of Pain in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Wilson¹

2013

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

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The semantics of pain are an important and interesting aspect of any language. Ancient Greek and Latin had multiple words for pain, which makes scrutinizing different meanings problematic. The ancient physician Galen approached this issue through the use of adjectives to describe the qualities for pain, instead of the words for pain themselves. The medical texts of Celsus and Caelius Aurelianus reveal that Latin also vested particular significance in qualifiers to distinguish between different types of pain. This article looks at the qualifying terms used for pain in the ancient Greek and Latin languages to reveal a sophisticated Greco-Roman vocabulary for pain.

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The Semantics of Pain in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Wilson¹

2013

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

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Causality, Agency, and the Limits of Medicine

Holmes

2013

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Abstract The difference between ancient Greek medicine and ancient Greek philosophy has often been seen by scholars in terms of two targets of expertise: the body and the soul. In this paper, I argue that we can better understand the boundaries between medicine and philosophy in antiquity by focusing instead on the difference between causes and motivations (or causes and desires). The reason is this. It is not the case that the writers of the Hippocratic Corpus are uninterested in the soul (psychē). They are, however, reluctant to address their therapies to expressions of the patient’s own agency, despite tacitly acknowledging such agency as a causal force that cannot be reduced to the automatic behavior of the body. I go on to show how thinkers like Plato and Democritus zero in on the problem of perverted desires as part of a strategy of establishing a new domain of therapy, a domain that comes to be classified as the therapy of the soul.

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