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Sore Feet and Tragedy in Plutarch and Lucian
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This chapter turns to the treatment of gout and its symptoms in Plutarch and Lucian. Plutarch uses the figure of Philoktetes to help explain and justify his model of a body that is inherently susceptible to long-term and harsh pains; this view is in contradistinction to that of Epicurean philosophy’s approach to bodily pain. Lucian’s Podagra examines the relationship between medicine and religious practice. His use of tragic parody simultaneously constructs the pained individual as a type of heroic sufferer and mystical initiate, and then ridicules this position. In both instances, physiological pain symptoms are reworked into a broader emotional, cognitive, and social framework.
Title: Sore Feet and Tragedy in Plutarch and Lucian
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This chapter turns to the treatment of gout and its symptoms in Plutarch and Lucian.
Plutarch uses the figure of Philoktetes to help explain and justify his model of a body that is inherently susceptible to long-term and harsh pains; this view is in contradistinction to that of Epicurean philosophy’s approach to bodily pain.
Lucian’s Podagra examines the relationship between medicine and religious practice.
His use of tragic parody simultaneously constructs the pained individual as a type of heroic sufferer and mystical initiate, and then ridicules this position.
In both instances, physiological pain symptoms are reworked into a broader emotional, cognitive, and social framework.
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