Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition; Volume 44) by Edited by W.V. Harris - 2018

BRILL, 2018. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Literature scholars, ancient historians, archaeologists, and philosophers gathered in New York City during April 2015 for a conference on how people in classical antiquity experienced and thought about pain and pleasure. Among their topics are post-primordial pleasures: the pleasures of the flesh and the question of origins, pain and medicine in the classical world, pleasure and the medicus in Roman literature, Lucretian pleasure, Alexander of Aphrodisias on pleasure and pain in Aristotle, and Nero in Hell: Plutarch's De Sera Numinis Vindicta. (2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)