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Therapoetics After Actium

Therapoetics After Actium Narrative, Medicine, and Authority in Augustan Epic

Hardback (19 Jul 2019)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Inspired by classical and Hellenistic "miracles" of medical science, the author reshaped the Roman epic by infusing it with medical metaphors and themes. In this book, the author argues that this shift constitutes a veritable Roman "therapoetics."

Book information

ISBN: 9781421417301
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 871.0109
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: cm
Weight: 666g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 28mm