Article ID: CBB001320357

The Semantics of Pain in Greco-Roman Antiquity (2013)

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The semantics of pain are an important and interesting aspect of any language. Ancient Greek and Latin had multiple words for pain, which makes scrutinizing different meanings problematic. The ancient physician Galen approached this issue through the use of adjectives to describe the qualities for pain, instead of the words for pain themselves. The medical texts of Celsus and Caelius Aurelianus reveal that Latin also vested particular significance in qualifiers to distinguish between different types of pain. This article looks at the qualifying terms used for pain in the ancient Greek and Latin languages to reveal a sophisticated Greco-Roman vocabulary for pain.[

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Authors & Contributors
Garofalo, Ivan
Roselli, Amneris
Galen
Pietrobelli, Antoine
Zipser, Barbara
Steger, Florian
Concepts
Medicine
Manuscripts
Translations
Latin language
Hippocratic medicine
Greek language
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
Renaissance
Places
Greece
Rome (Italy)
Italy
Madrid (Spain)
Germany
Europe
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