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DISEASES IN BRONZE AGE, GREECE.
Author: Diseases in the Ancient Greek World
Author: Mirko D. GrmekPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 9780801842252
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
What were the illnesses that plagued men, women, and children of the ancient world? Traditional approaches to this subject have often relied exclusively on literary evidence, but ancient texts are extraordinarily difficult to interpret. Different methodologies, archaic defitions of diseases, and technical terms whose meanings have shifted over time frustrate discovery of the actual diseases hidden behind textual sources. To uncover this "nosological reality," Mirko D. Grmek has fashioned a vast army of techniques into a new, multidisciplinary approach that combines philology, paleopathology, paleodemography, and iconography with recent developments in genetics, immunology, epidemiology, and clinical medicine. Also new is Grmek's concept of pathocoenosis (the ensemble of pathological states present in a given population) and his method of examining such ancient diseases as leprocy, tuberculosis, and syphilis in relation to one another, and to all other pathological conditions, rather than in isolation.
Diseases in the Ancient Greek World
Author: Mirko Dražen GrmekPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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The End of the Bronze Age
Author: Robert DrewsPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691025919
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This text attempts to account for the destruction of key cities in the Mediterranean at the end of the Bronze Age, circa the 12th century BC. The author proposes a military explanation for the destruction of four important kingdoms at this time.
A History of Disease in Ancient Times
Author: Philip NorriePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319289373
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
This book shows how bubonic plague and smallpox helped end the Hittite Empire, the Bronze Age in the Near East and later the Carthaginian Empire. The book will examine all the possible infectious diseases present in ancient times and show that life was a daily struggle for survival either avoiding or fighting against these infectious disease epidemics. The book will argue that infectious disease epidemics are a critical link in the chain of causation for the demise of most civilizations in the ancient world and that ancient historians should no longer ignore them, as is currently the case.
Ancient Greece Health and Disease
Author: Richard DargiePublisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780756520878
Category : Medicine, Greek and Roman
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
An exploration of medicine in the Ancient Greek world.
Health in Antiquity
Author: Helen KingPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134599730
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This book looks at issues surrounding health in a variety of ancient Mediterranean societies.
Diseases in the ancient Greek world
Author: Illness and Health Care in the Ancient Near East
Author: Hector AvalosPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004387609
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
Preliminary Material /Peter Machinist -- Introduction /Peter Machinist -- Greece /Peter Machinist -- Mesopotamia /Peter Machinist -- Israel /Peter Machinist -- Conclusion /Peter Machinist -- Illustrations /Peter Machinist -- Bibliography /Peter Machinist -- Indices /Peter Machinist.
The Tragic End of the Bronze Age
Author: Tom SlatteryPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595121462
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A catastrophe of unimaginable proportions struck in the middle of the twelfth century BC and with a sudden swiftness brought Old World civilizations to an abrupt end. This initiated the world’s longest and deepest known dark age. When the world finally recovered centuries later, new written languages had replaced old ones, a new strategic and useful metal had replaced the old one, and the historical reality of the old civilizations had been replaced by yore and myth invented from fragments passed down through the barrier of the long deep dark age. Some of these fragments, and possibly some references to the catastrophe itself, may be found in the Old Testament and in ancient Greek literature. Out of the fragmented preserved memories, and stories built around them, we became what we are today.