Medical Analogy in Latin Satire

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
1 Introduction: Medicine for the Sick Soul......Page 12
The analogy......Page 15
Shared goals of satire and moral philosophy......Page 18
The satirist as an expert healer......Page 22
Internally sick: appetites as diseases......Page 27
Hidden wounds and symptomatic colours in Roman satire......Page 31
Changing traditions: from rotten insides to disease encomia......Page 38
Medicine as a metaphor for writing satire......Page 43
The healing doctor and the sick doctor......Page 48
Heinsius and Volpi on satirical catharsis......Page 52
Satirical effects and emotions......Page 58
Therapy as punishment......Page 65
3 Painfully Happy: Satirical Disease Eulogies and the Good Life......Page 73
Epideictic rhetoric and paradoxical praises of disease......Page 74
Fever as a moral disease......Page 78
Divine gout dwells in wealth and luxury......Page 85
Enduring pain like a Stoic......Page 91
The blessings of gout......Page 97
Matthaeus Czanakius: in praise of the itch......Page 105
On old age......Page 111
Blindness and sin......Page 114
Blindness and insight......Page 117
Guther, Passerat and Puteanus on blindness......Page 121
Marten Schoock on deafness......Page 131
On the wonderful lethargy......Page 138
The ambivalence of intoxication......Page 143
5 Outlook and Virtue: Morally Symptomatic Physical Peculiarities......Page 152
Albert Wichgreve\'s praise of dwarfs......Page 154
Intellectual outlook and thinness in Jacob Balde\'s poetry......Page 160
Strange student diseases......Page 169
The art of farting......Page 178
6 Satire as Therapy......Page 181
Appendix: The Anthologies Used in This Study......Page 186
Notes......Page 190
Bibliography......Page 205
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J......Page 222
P......Page 223
T......Page 224
Z......Page 225