Melancholy in Hellenistic and Latin poetry : medical readings in Menander, Apollonius Rhodius, Lucretius and Horace
In the first chapter of this thesis, starting from modern scholarship on melancholy, I attempt to combat the widely-held belief that this disease is identified exclusively with madness in antiquity. In order to do this, I locate the origins of this misreading in Cicero and attempt to restore the mor...
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University of Oxford
2011
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.560519 |