Death and disease in the ancient city / edited by Valerie M. Hope and Eireann Marshall.

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9780203262887

9780203452950

9780415214278

9781280056529

Title:

Death and disease in the ancient city / edited by Valerie M. Hope and Eireann Marshall.

Author:

Hope, Valerie M., 1968-

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 194 pages).

Series:

Routledge classical monographs

Contents:

Death and disease in Cyrene: a case study / Eireanna Marshall -- Sickness in the body politic: medical imagery in the Greek polis / Roger Brock -- Polis nosousa: Greek ideas about the city and disease in the first century BC / Jennifer Clarke Kosak -- Death and epidemic disease in classical Athens / James Longrigg -- Medical thoughts on urban pollution / Vivian Nutton -- Towns and marshes in the ancient world / Federico Borca -- On the margins of the city of Rome / John R. Patterson -- Contempt and respect: the treatment of the corpses in ancient Rome / Valerie M. Hope -- Dealing with the dead: undertakers, executioners and potter's field in ancient Rome / John Bodel -- Death-pollution and funeral in the city of Rome / Hugh Lindsay.

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Subject Term:

Medicine, Greek and Roman.

Urban health -- Rome.

Urban health -- Greece.

Geographic Term:

Greece.

Rome.

Added Author:

Hope, Valerie M., 1968-

Marshall, Eireann, 1967-

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Publication Date:

2000

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

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Author Notes

John Bodel: Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
Federico Borca: Universita di Torino, Italy
Roger Brock: University of Leeds
Valerie M. Hope: Open University
Jennifer Clarke Kosak: Bowdoin College, Maine, USA
Hugh Lindsay: University of Newcastle, Australia
James Longrigg: University of Newcastle
Eireann Marshall: University of Exeter
Vivian Nutton: University College London
John R. Patterson: University of Cambridge

Valerie M. Hope and Eireann MarshallEireann MarshallRoger BrockJennifer Clarke KosakJames LongriggVivian NuttonFederico BorcaJohn R. PattersonValerie M. HopeJohn BodelHugh Lindsay

List of contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
List of abbreviations	p. xii
1 Introduction	p. 1
2 Death and disease in Cyrene: a case study	p. 8
3 Sickness in the body politic: medical imagery in the Greek polis	p. 24
4 Polis nosousa: Greek ideas about the city and disease in the fifth century BC	p. 35
5 Death and epidemic disease in classical Athens	p. 55
6 Medical thoughts on urban pollution	p. 65
7 Towns and marshes in the ancient world	p. 74
8 On the margins of the city of Rome	p. 85
9 Contempt and respect: the treatment of the corpse in ancient Rome	p. 104
10 Dealing with the dead: undertakers, executioners and potter's fields in ancient Rome	p. 128
11 Death-pollution and funerals in the city of Rome	p. 152
Bibliography	p. 174
Index	p. 190

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