A new light can be thrown on Seneca's tragedies through the knowledge of the main features of Stoic Pneumatic Medical School. From its doctrines, Seneca borrowed the idea of mind-body interaction, along with the descriptions of the psycho-somatic diseases called mania and melancholia. All this features were transferred to the characters of Seneca's tragedies, whose furor is an actual sickness.

Bocchi, G., Philosophia medica e medicina rhetorica in Seneca. La scuola pneumatica, l'ira, la melancolia., Vita e Pensiero, Milano 2011: 263 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/63856]

Philosophia medica e medicina rhetorica in Seneca. La scuola pneumatica, l'ira, la melancolia.

Bocchi, Giuseppe
2011

Abstract

A new light can be thrown on Seneca's tragedies through the knowledge of the main features of Stoic Pneumatic Medical School. From its doctrines, Seneca borrowed the idea of mind-body interaction, along with the descriptions of the psycho-somatic diseases called mania and melancholia. All this features were transferred to the characters of Seneca's tragedies, whose furor is an actual sickness.
2011
Italiano
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Bocchi, G., Philosophia medica e medicina rhetorica in Seneca. La scuola pneumatica, l'ira, la melancolia., Vita e Pensiero, Milano 2011: 263 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/63856]
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