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"Presumably, Aulus Cornelius Celsus, whose creative activity came under the rule of emperor Tiberius, was not a professional doctor, but he wrote the best medical work of Roman literature. Within the eight books unpretentiously entitled De medicina, numerous witty remarks and historic gems are hidden. The most important ones have been included into the present anthology, translated into German and supplied with commentaries"--

Medicine, Greek and Roman. --- Science, Ancient.

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The present volume offers a systematic discussion of the complex relationship between medicine and paradoxography in the ancient world.For a long time, the relationship between the two has been assumed to be virtually non-existent. Paradoxography is concerned with disclosing a world full of marvels and wondrous occurrences without providing an answer as to how these phenomena can be explained. Its main aim is to astonish and leave its readers bewildered and confused. By contrast, medicine is committed to the rational explanation of human phusis, which makes it, in a number of significant ways, incompatible with thauma. This volume moves beyond the binary opposition between 'rational' and 'non-rational' modes of thinking, by focusing on instances in which the paradox is construed with direct reference to established medical sources and beliefs or, inversely, on cases in which medical discourse allows space for wonder and admiration. Its aim is to show that thauma, rather than present a barrier, functions as a concept which effectively allows for the dialogue between medicine and paradoxography in the ancient world.

Medicine, Greek and Roman --- History. --- medicine. --- paradoxography. --- thauma.

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Des jeunes filles chantent en chœur le désir homoérotique que leur inspire leur chorège tout en disant leur relation rituelle avec une déesse, incarnation de la beauté féminine. Les mots chantés sur un pas de danse chorale ont été composés par un poète masculin au service de la cité de Sparte, pourtant célèbre pour sa culture militaire masculine. À l’exemple des poèmes dits parthénées du poète Alcman, on s’interroge successivement sur les formes poétiques et rituelles assumées par une sexualité dépassant l’opposition moderne entre hétéro- et homosexualité, sur les rapports sociaux et religieux de sexe que ces performances poétiques mettent en jeu, sur la culture musicale du chant qu’elles impliquent avec ses formes institutionnelles, sur des pratiques rituelles adossées aux récits héroïques fondateurs de la cité, sur les qualités et fonctions des divinités auxquelles sont destinées ces célébrations politiques et religieuses de l’adolescence féminine : Artémis, Apollon, Héra, Aphrodite et, à Sparte, Hélène.En combinaison avec une perspective d’histoire des religions en régime polythéiste, l’approche offerte par l’anthropologie culturelle et sociale invite à aborder la fonction sociale autant de ces performances musicales que des relations sexuelles impliquées. La comparaison anthropologique avec les processus rituels de l’initiation tribale permet de saisir le sens esthétique et politique de l’éducation chorale et rituelle des jeunes filles en Grèce ancienne ; ce processus éducatif à caractère initiatique les prépare aux rôles différenciés de sexe et aux statuts sociaux qu’elles assument en tant qu’adultes.

Music, Greek and Roman --- Drama --- Women --- History and criticism --- Chorus (Greek drama) --- Music, Greek and Roman - History and criticism --- Drama - Chorus (Greek drama) --- Women - Greece

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This volume brings together papers dealing with therapeutic aspects connected to thermo-mineral sites both in Italy and in the Roman Provinces, as well as cultic issues surrounding health and healing.

Medicine, Greek and Roman. --- Mineral wates --- Sacred space --- Healing --- Therapeutic use.

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"This book explores early reflections on music and its effects on the mind and soul. Augustine is an obvious choice for such an analysis, as his De Musica is the only treatise on music by a Christian writer in the first five centuries AD; concerned not only with poetic metre and rhythm, but also with an ontology of music. Focusing on the six books of De Musica, the Confessions and the Homilies on the Psalms, Carol Harrison argues that Augustine establishes a psychology, ethics and aesthetics of musical perception, which considered together form an effective theology of music. For Augustine, music-both heard and performed- becomes the means by which we can sense and participate in divine grace. Composed by one of the world's foremost Augustine scholars, this book is a concise and powerful exploration of Augustine's writing and reflections on music and, by extension, the intimate relationship between music, religion, and philosophy."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Music, Greek and Roman --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Augustine,