What is it about?
The book chapter investigates what the language of pain was in Ancient Greece and which aspects of the language reveal subjective tendencies.
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Why is it important?
The language of pain in any time period is not objective. This paper also contributes to the insight that pain language can change.
Perspectives
I have emphasised the subjective but also the emergence of certain words and how they change (for instance, from physical to mental)
Professor Han N Baltussen
University of Adelaide
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This page is a summary of: Labelling Pain: Early Greek Concepts from Homer to the Hellenistic Era, June 2023, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004677463_003.
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