Mental Disorders in the Classical World [Greek, Ancient (To 1453)]

by William V. Harris

The historians, classicists and psychiatrists who have come together to produce Mental Disorders in the Classical World aim to explain how the Greeks and their Roman successors conceptualized, diagnosed and treated mental disorders. The Greeks initiated the secular understanding of mental illness, and have left us a large body of penetrating and thought-provoking writing on the subject, ranging in time from Homer to the sixth century AD. With...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Greek, Ancient (To 1453)
• ISBN: 9004249826
• ISBN13: 9789004249820
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 532 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"