Autorentext

Konstantine Panegyres is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Western Australia. He completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford, where he was a Clarendon Scholar, and then spent two years as a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne. His research currently focuses on editing ancient manuscripts, especially papyri, and on ancient ideas about health.

Klappentext

Through careful analysis of a wide range of ancient literary sources, provided in both the original Greek and Latin and in English translation, the book explores what Graeco-Roman authors thought about how lifestyle could contribute to a person's healthiness or unhealthiness.

Inhalt

List of Figures vi Introduction 1 1 Contexts 19 2 Defining Health 39 3 Defining Lifestyle 63 4 The Development of Ideas About Health and Lifestyle: From Homer to the Hippocratic Corpus 88 5 The Medical Regulation of Lifestyle for Health 115 6 Personal Behaviour, Lifestyle, and Health 149 7 Moralising Perspectives on Health and Lifestyle 182 8 Personal Circumstances, Lifestyle, and Health 207 Conclusion 247 Index 253