In and out of the mind : Greek images of the tragic self / Ruth Padel.

  • Padel, Ruth, 1946-
Date:
[1992], ©1992
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Publication/Creation

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1992], ©1992.

Physical description

xx, 210 pages ; 25 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographic references (p. 193-203) and index

Contents

Introduction: The divinity of inside and outside -- Innards -- Disease and divination: Knowing the causes of pain -- The flux of feeling -- Inner world, underworld, and gendered images of "mind" -- The zoology and daemonology of emotion -- Animal, Daimon: Bringers of death and definition -- Blood in the mind.

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Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Camb. Med. Bks

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