Taylor, Rebecca Elizabeth (2016) Micro- and microcosm : the human body and the natural environment in archaic and classical thought. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

This thesis examines the micro-/macrocosm model in Archaic and Classical Greek thought. The main focus of the thesis centres on medical and philosophical theories and these are examined against the background of popular beliefs and mythology. The evidence investigated will be drawn from the Hippocratic and Aristotelian Corpus. The original formation of mankind is studied in relation to the idea that mankind is a product of the natural environment and so parallels the universe in its form and processes. Owing to this, the body reacts in the same way as the natural environment does to change and the overall nature of the natural environment extends to the nature of the body and its diseases. The fact that the body changes with the weather in this way meant that physicians could predict disease patterns through predicting the weather

Item Type:	Thesis or Dissertation (PhD)
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DF Greece
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Medical anthropology -- History, Human ecology -- Greece -- History, Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- History
Official Date:	April 2016
Dates:	Date Event April 2016 Submitted
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Department of Classics and Ancient History
Thesis Type:	PhD
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor:	Swain, Simon
Extent:	vii, 246 leaves
Language:	eng

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