PD Dr. Chiara Thumiger
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LIVING GUTS. Physiologische Lehren, literarische Darstellungen und Symbolik des Verdauungssystems in der griechisch-römischen Welt und ihr Erbe
Quelle ↗Förderer: DFG Eigene Stelle (Sachbeihilfe) Zeitraum: 05/2026 - 04/2029 Projektleitung: PD Dr. Chiara Thumiger, Prof. Dr. Philip van der Eijk
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Cambridge University Press eBooks · 127 Zitationen · DOI
This book on ancient medicine offers a unique resource for historians of medicine, historians of psychology, and classicists - and also cultural historians and historians of art. The Hippocratic texts and other contemporary medical sources have often been overlooked when it comes to their approaches to psychology, which are considered more mechanical and less elaborated than contemporary poetic and philosophical representations, but also than later medical works, notably Galenic. This book aims to do justice to early medical accounts by illustrating their richness and sophistication, their links with contemporary cultural products, and the indebtedness of later medicine to their observations. The ancient sources are read not only as archaeological documents, but also in the light of methodological discussions that are fundamental in the history of psychiatry and the history of psychology.
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In Mental Illness in Ancient Medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina a detailed account is given, by a range of experts in the field, of the development of different conceptualizations of the mind and its pathology by medical authors from the beginning of the imperial period to the seventh century CE. New analysis is offered, both of the dominant texts of Galen and of such important but neglected figures as Rufus, Archigenes, Athenaeus of Attalia, Aretaeus, Caelius Aurelianus and the Byzantine 'compilers'. The work of these authors is considered both in its medical-historical context and in relation to philosophical and theological debates - on ethics and on the nature of the soul - with which they interacted.
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This chapter offers a review of Greek general terminology of insanity as it is used in fifth- and early fourth-century medical texts. By ‘general’ the author indicates terminology which signifies insanity without strong specifications of features. The chapter first discusses the category of ‘general terms’. It describes briefly the discussion and problems posed by Hippocratic melancholia . The status of melancholia remains obviously much more opaque than that of phrenitis ; but it is also in turn more construed and composite than that of mania . The chapter presents a scrutiny of the concept in two respects, both (1) as a ‘disease’ proper and (2) as a psychological disorder in particular. It offers a review of the most important of these terms, broadly divided by etymological families. The Hippocratic texts reviewed in the chapter display an impressive linguistic effort to develop a range of terms to describe insanity. Keywords:Greek medical vocabulary; hippocratic texts; insanity; mania ; melancholia ; phrenitis
Helios · 47 Zitationen · DOI
Vision and Knowledge in Greek Tragedy* Chiara Thumiger (bio) It is to be expected that the problematization of seeing features importantly in theater, especially so in tragedy, since it emphasizes the acquisition of knowledge and the process of human ‘learning’ from experience.1 First, the sense of sight is central to human existence and is, at the same time, a characteristically close and remote experience. As Robert Michaels (1986, 303) explains, “Seeing is immediate, personal; it carries conviction … Vision is also the most distant, the least inner of perceptions. We can touch, smell, feel and even hear the inside of our body, but never see it.” Seeing is ‘biologically’ the most self-evident and forceful of the senses, as well as the most readily loaded with metaphorical meaning, whereby physical sight becomes an image for reflective knowledge in its various forms.2 Second, seeing engages with theatricality (the specific type of seeing that is proper to a theatrical audience as they watch the show). A play is a performed spectacle, as much as a literary text. The themes of vision and knowledge interact, therefore, with the conventions and the medium of theater itself.3 Third, the problem of seeing and appearances as epistemologically charged has great relevance within Athenian culture in the second half of the fifth century. The Sophistic movement (exemplified notably in Protagoras and Gorgias) focused on the problem of defining knowledge and the way it is gained. Plato’s late work Theaetetus (ca. 369 BCE) illustrates vividly the extent of the debate: in the first part of the dialogue (142A—158E) the Platonic Socrates explores Protagoras’s doctrine of knowledge and sensible perception, refuting the Sophist’s statement that “Man is the measure of all things.”4 Socrates focuses on the ambiguity of the senses and on the importance of his own mission to dispel the false ideas about knowledge spread by the Sophists, opposing ‘image’ and ‘imposture’ to the ‘real’: So great, then, is the importance of midwives; but their function is less important than mine. For women do not, like my patients, bring forth at one time real children [] and at another mere images [] which are difficult to distinguish from the real … The greatest thing about my art is this, that it can test in every way whether the mind of the young man is bringing forth a mere image, an imposture [] or a real and genuine offspring. (Tht. 150B—C) [End Page 223] Gorgias of Leontini is also known to have been concerned with the reliability of appearances in building knowledge in his lost work On Not Being. Sextus Empiricus’s account (Against the Logicians 1.65—87) summarizes the content of the treatise along three points: “First, that there is nothing; second, even if there is [something], it is not apprehensible by a human being; third, that even if it is apprehensible, it is still not expressible or explainable to the next person.” This evidence points at a rich philosophical debate initiated in the fifth century, at first dominated by the philosophy of Parmenides, continued in the second half of the century by the Sophists, and then reformulated by Plato in his later dialogues (Theaetetus, Parmenides, Sophist). In this debate the unknowability of reality and the incommunicability of knowledge between subjects are crucial.5 Knowledge as originating in the senses is questioned, and a definition of ‘real knowledge’ and ‘real being’ is sought. The motif of the reliability of seeing and vision in tragedy has to be understood within this cultural milieu. In this article I explore how the issue of vision and knowledge emerge in Greek drama in the second half of the fifth century. I will follow a working division into three ‘levels’: the subject as viewer, the world as object of viewing, and flawed viewers and unclear sights. These correspond to different approaches to the fundamental epistemological topic—the reliability of sensory perception and the communicability of knowledge. Although they are simultaneously present in the cultural reflection of the period (and they are, indeed, three crucial components of the cognitive experience of viewing), I propose that they also reflect a development in the history of philosophical thought. The emphasis on...
Oxford University Press eBooks · 32 Zitationen · DOI
Abstract This chapter analyzes tragic instances in which we can observe an intersection between the erotic emotion as unsettling and disruptive and the broader category of madness, in order to highlight the specifics of erotic mania in this genre. In tragedy erotic passion, whether marital love or illicit sexual desire, tends to be represented as a negative and destructive experience. This is evident in the symmetrical examples of Aeschylus' Supplices and Sophocles' Trachiniae. Conversely, in tragic presentation other monstrous drives are ‘erotized’ and conveyed through reference to a metaphorical, mad erôs, here illustrated by the representation of the bloodthirsty urge to kill in Aeschylus' Agamemnon. The chapter concludes by proposing an interpretation for this one-sided representation of erôs in tragedy in terms of the genre’s interest in a public, rather than private response to crisis and of its concern with the risks posed by strong and uncontrolled emotions.
Transcultural Psychiatry · 30 Zitationen · DOI
One of the most distinctive aspects of contemporary psychiatry is its firm grounding in a neurological and biochemical framework for the interpretation of mental life and its disturbances. In the absence of any strong neurological understanding or systematic knowledge of active pharmaceutical substances, one might expect that early ancient medicine readily resorted to non-somatic approaches to healing mental suffering. Instead, what is usually labelled "therapy of the word" and other forms of what one may call psychotherapy emerge relatively late in Greek medicine, only in the first centuries of our era. This paper provides an overview and analysis of this development in ancient history of psychology, philosophy and medicine, covering a broad period of time from the fifth century BCE to the end of the late-antique period, the fifth century CE. The focus is on the very idea (or lack thereof) of the curability of mental disturbance, and on the particular branch of therapeutics which addresses the psychological and existential condition of the patient, rather than his or her physiological state.
History of Psychiatry · 28 Zitationen · DOI
This book on ancient medicine offers a unique resource for historians of medicine, historians of psychology, and classicists – and also cultural historians and historians of art. The Hippocratic texts and other contemporary medical sources have often been overlooked when it comes to their approaches to psychology, which are considered more mechanical and less elaborated than contemporary poetic and philosophical representations, but also than later medical works, notably Galenic. This book aims to do justice to early medical accounts by illustrating their richness and sophistication, their links with contemporary cultural products, and the indebtedness of later medicine to their observations. The ancient sources are read not only as archaeological documents, but also in the light of methodological discussions that are fundamental in the history of psychiatry and the history of psychology.
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The Hippocratic Epidemics case reports is an example of a text whose intended audiences, despite the ambiguities and historical uncertainties about the texts' composition and transmission, were very firmly delimited as professional and medical. This chapter focuses on medical texts as items in a communication, "speech acts" that can reveal information about their own target audiences, and concentrates on one specific group of texts belonging to the Hippocratic Corpus: the patient reports found in the various books of the Epidemics. It explores some of the most notable formal features of the Hippocratic patient cases in terms of audience effect. The chapter looks at the audiences of the texts as the primary, concrete reason for their existence in that precise form. The mnemonics ancient medical audiences needed and employed were also very different from contemporary medical mnemonics, mostly first-letter acronyms, although both are motivated by the urgency of recalling needed knowledge.
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Book description: Hidden paths analyses the representation of character in Greek tragedy, focusing on one of the most important and controversial theatre plays of all times, the Bacchae. Euripides’ last play has always been a favourite, enjoying an enormous success for centuries, on and off the stage. This book argues that in the representation of characters in the play we can find a development in the view of self and representation of man. This development, which is also to be partly traced in the works of Sophocles and in earlier plays by Euripides, finds a fuller expression in the Bacchae and culminates in the catastrophe of ignorance and incommunicability which has Pentheus at its centre. The construction of character in the text and the view of self which it entails are explored through a meticulous analysis of keywords, while verbal usage, imagery and style are exposed as the very ‘stuff’ of characterisation. The book uncovers the ‘hidden paths’ along which human life is experienced in the play and through which human characterisation materializes from the fabric of the text.
Oxford University Press eBooks · 18 Zitationen · DOI
The aim of this chapter is to explore how ancient medical ideas offer relevant parallels to the modern notions of degree vagueness and combinatorial vagueness with respect to mental health and its management. By closely examining several key examples, this chapter argues that Graeco-Roman physicians recognized physical and mental health as states that admit of gradation and were aware of the nuances, variations, and even the relativity of the distinction between ‘healthy’ and ‘ill’. When it comes to notions of physical and mental health, these nuances are both quantitative and qualitative. One of the characteristics of Graeco-Roman medicine is the consideration given to a body–mind continuum as something that is subject to health and disease and can be the object of medical attention. Section 2 introduces ancient conceptions of physical health and demonstrates the relevance of degree and combinatorial vagueness in this domain. Section 3 focuses on mental health.
UCL Discovery (University College London) · 15 Zitationen
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 13 Zitationen · DOI
Studi italiani di filología classica · 13 Zitationen
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The introduction sets out the intellectual issues and methodological challenges involved in researching ancient medical notions of mental illness, taking account of recent philosophical as well as historical work. It proceeds to give an overview of the key medical authors of the imperial and early Byzantine period and their definitional and practical approaches to mental illness, from Celsus at the turn of the millennium to Paul of Aegina in the seventh century.
The Classical Review · 9 Zitationen · DOI
Metamorphosis - (R.) Buxton Forms of Astonishment. Greek Myths of Metamorphosis. Pp. xvi + 281, ills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Cased, £50, US$100. ISBN: 978-0-19-924549-9. - Volume 61 Issue 1
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The experience and conceptualization of madness in Graeco-Roman antiquity are tied up with the medium of literary expressions in a particularly strong way. This chapter focuses on the ideas on mental disorder that were brought forth by physicians and philosophers dealing with questions of medicine. It also describes the historical reconstruction with a survey of the cultural representations of madness and 'the mad' in Greek culture that constitute the background against which scientific thought developed its understanding of mental health and its disturbance. In a famous and most influential work, The Greeks and the Irrational, the classical scholar E. R. Dodds first placed 'the irrational' at full title into the scholarly study of Greek culture, both as social datum and as personal experience. The chapter offers an introduction of Greek madness, its specificity and its mythology in subsequent Western culture. It then explores the medical accounts elaborated throughout antiquity.
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In this chapter I propose to explore one particular realm of pathology that has relevance to the sphere of mental health and the formation of mental disease concepts in ancient medicine: nutrition and eating/drinking behaviours, and their alteration as forms of mental disorder.1 These include appetite and lack thereof, pathological drives (or absence of drives) towards food, food restriction and pathological voracity, and a general distortion in one's attitudes towards food. I suggest that this area of experience received increased attention in late-antique medical writings as part of a wider phenomenon, the inclusion of the themes of voluntariness, self-control and the management of needs and desires, so much so that specific diseases thus emerged in association with these areas of human subjectivity-a topic which has still not received the attention it deserves, unlike other aspects of subjective bodily needs and desires, notably sex.2
The Journal of Hellenic Studies · 5 Zitationen
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From the beginning of the Western literary tradition, one particular representation of erôs emerges clearly: love as dangerous or even pathological in a literal, concretely medical sense, love as disease: 'Lovesickness', 'Mal d'amore', 'Liebeskummer', 'Mal de amores', and so on. Challenging the obviousness of such a conception, this chapter explores the topos as the situated product of a specific tradition, with its own origins, elements of variation, and specific developments. The idea that human erôs could become a true and proper disease, and that this disease is caused and triggered by vision, offered a formidable point of conjunction and an interface between otherwise separate environments: poetry, medicine, and philosophy. Hallucination, dreaming, and even affection of the eyes emerge as key markers of the 'disease of lovers', also recognised by doctors. This ophthalmological aspect allows us to reappraise the traditional references to erotic viewing, perceived beauty, and longing as matter of desired - and lost - images of the beloved in a more concrete, medical light. The topic of lovesickness displays thus a persistent hybridity, suspended between seriousness and ludus, while a repertoire of bodily symptoms of erôs appears to remain largely consistent through centuries of ancient and early Medieval history, literary and medical.
Mnemosyne · 3 Zitationen · DOI
The terminology of insanity in the Hippocratic texts appears often confusing to the reader for its variety and ambiguity. Scholarship has dealt with this problematic group of words in different ways, attributing the phenomenon to accidents in the composition of early medical texts or their status as part of a developing technical language and fundamentally reducing them to synonymous. In this piece I propose to look at them not in a semantic perspective, but from the point of view of pragmatic linguistics. How does the grammar and position in which these words are used influence their effect within the individual narrative? How are nuances of emphasis and intensity expressed? How do aspects of subjectivity and chronology emerge through narrative strategies? Through a close reading of one illustrative passage from the patient cases of the Epidemics I attempt to extract further information about the use and meaning of early medical psychiatric vocabulary.
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This chapter looks at the patient cases of the Epidemics as testimonies to the interaction between the physician and the patient. My corpus of reference is the patient cases in fifth- and early fourth-century medical texts, mostly the more elaborated examples offered by Epidemics 1 and 3. A patient case collects information from various sources: the patient's observable behavior and state; his or her account of her disease, its history and the patient's lifestyle; the contribution given by relatives and friends; and, of course, the physician with his judgment, his agenda, his terminology and didactic aims. What remains elusive and hidden is the viewpoint of the patient and his personal experience within, or under the authoritative report compiled by the physician. In this chapter, I survey key stylistic features of these reports, which I see as significant to the reconstruction of the point of view of the ill in his or her encounter with the doctor. My main aim is to extract from these texts as much as possible information about the experience of suffering and patienthood in antiquity. In my analysis I look at the text not only, and not primarily as a definitive pronouncement stemming from the physician's legislating mind, and from the material author's 'pen', nor observations from by-standers and helpers in the sick room, nor even as the plaintive cries from suffering patient, but as a composition in which all the principal actors in the drama of a sickness must contribute.
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