Subject |
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
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Urban health -- Rome.
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Urban health -- Greece.
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Descript |
xii, 194 p. ; 28 cm. |
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. |
Note |
Digital reprint. Originally published: London ; New York: Routledge, 2000. |
Alt author |
Hope, Valerie M., 1968- editor.
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Marshall, Eireann, editor.
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ISBN |
0415214270 (HB) |
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9780415214278 (HB) |
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9780415619325 (pbk.) |
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0415619327 (pbk.) |
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