George Kazantzidis
Biographic Data
| ID | 952579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Kazantzidis |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Kazantzidis |
| SIGNATURE | KAZANTZIDIS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Patras |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Memory and Emotions in Antiquity
Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity
This innovative and wide-ranging volume is the first systematic exploration of the multifaceted relationship between human bodies and machines in classical antiquity. It examines the conception of the body and bodily processes in mechanical terms in ancient medical writings, and looks into how artificial bodies and automata were equally configured in human terms; it also investigates how this knowledge applied to the treatment of the disabled and…
Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity
This volume focuses on the under-explored topic of emotions' implications for ancient medical theory and practice, while it also raises questions about patients' sentiments. Ancient medicine, along with philosophy, offer unique windows to professional and scientific explanatory models of emotions. Thus, the contributions included in this volume offer comparative ground that helps readers and researchers interested in ancient emotions pin down pos…
Sex and the Ancient City
Lucretius on Disease
The standard view in scholarship is that disease in Lucretius' De rerum natura is mainly a problem to be solved and then dispensed with.However, a closer reading suggests that things are more layered and complex than they appear at first sight: just as morbus causes a radical rearrangement of atoms in the body and makes the patient engage with alternative and up to that point unknown dimensions of the sensible world, so does disease as a theme ge…
Medicine and Paradoxography in the Ancient World
Pseudo-intellectualism and Melancholy. The Poetics of Black Bile in Lucian's Lexiphanes
In Lucian's highly competitive and exhibitionist world, hyper-Atticism, the (ab)use of recondite, archaic words for the sake of impression, has become a sort of plague. In this article, I discuss how Lexiphanes focuses precisely on the literal and metaphorical associations of hyper-Atticism as a disease, by paying particular attention on the medical verdict -articulated in the text by Lucian's authorial double, Lycinus -that the dialogue's eponym…
Cognition, Emotions and the Feeling Body in the Hippocratic Corpus
Hope in Ancient Literature, History, and Art
Doctors in a Comic Costume
This article argues that the medical language in Menander’s Aspis can be understood as both a kind of medical “gibberish” but also as an accurate representation of a professional diagnosis, and that the choice of interpretation is largely dependent on the medical knowledge of the individual audience member. To simply dismiss any instance of comic medical language as nonsensical, assuming that any other alternative would have made it less accessib…
‘Quem nos furorem, μελαγχολιαν illi vocant’
This chapter discusses Cicero’s translation of μeλαγχολία with furor at Tusculanae Disputationes —the first attempt made in Latin literature to investigate the meaning of the Greek term. In its first part, the chapter demonstrates that this is by no means a passing linguistic remark but should rather be situated within the context of Cicero’s critical engagement with ps.-Aristotle’s text and ideas, as this becomes evident at other points of his p…
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‘Quem nos furorem, μελαγχολιαν illi vocant’
This chapter discusses Cicero’s translation of μeλαγχολία with furor at Tusculanae Disputationes —the first attempt made in Latin literature to investigate the meaning of the Greek term. In its first part, the chapter demonstrates that this is by no means a passing linguistic remark but should rather be situated within the context of Cicero’s critical engagement with ps.-Aristotle’s text and ideas, as this becomes evident at other points of his p…
Cognition, Emotions and the Feeling Body in the Hippocratic Corpus
Hope in Ancient Literature, History, and Art
Doctors in a Comic Costume
This article argues that the medical language in Menander’s Aspis can be understood as both a kind of medical “gibberish” but also as an accurate representation of a professional diagnosis, and that the choice of interpretation is largely dependent on the medical knowledge of the individual audience member. To simply dismiss any instance of comic medical language as nonsensical, assuming that any other alternative would have made it less accessib…
Medicine and Paradoxography in the Ancient World
Pseudo-intellectualism and Melancholy. The Poetics of Black Bile in Lucian's Lexiphanes
In Lucian's highly competitive and exhibitionist world, hyper-Atticism, the (ab)use of recondite, archaic words for the sake of impression, has become a sort of plague. In this article, I discuss how Lexiphanes focuses precisely on the literal and metaphorical associations of hyper-Atticism as a disease, by paying particular attention on the medical verdict -articulated in the text by Lucian's authorial double, Lycinus -that the dialogue's eponym…
Lucretius on Disease
The standard view in scholarship is that disease in Lucretius' De rerum natura is mainly a problem to be solved and then dispensed with.However, a closer reading suggests that things are more layered and complex than they appear at first sight: just as morbus causes a radical rearrangement of atoms in the body and makes the patient engage with alternative and up to that point unknown dimensions of the sensible world, so does disease as a theme ge…
Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity
This volume focuses on the under-explored topic of emotions' implications for ancient medical theory and practice, while it also raises questions about patients' sentiments. Ancient medicine, along with philosophy, offer unique windows to professional and scientific explanatory models of emotions. Thus, the contributions included in this volume offer comparative ground that helps readers and researchers interested in ancient emotions pin down pos…
Sex and the Ancient City
Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity
This innovative and wide-ranging volume is the first systematic exploration of the multifaceted relationship between human bodies and machines in classical antiquity. It examines the conception of the body and bodily processes in mechanical terms in ancient medical writings, and looks into how artificial bodies and automata were equally configured in human terms; it also investigates how this knowledge applied to the treatment of the disabled and…
Memory and Emotions in Antiquity
Classical Philosophy and Thought (5 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works)