Article ID: CBB160650047

Introduction - Medicine and colour (2020)

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The perceptual experience of colour is necessarily defined in relation to the anthropological-cultural context which produces it. The Greek world is not an exception. The archetypal paradigm of the Homeric poems provides remarkable examples of how the words used to express colours, are closely related to the concreteness of the object, that is the vehicle of the colour itself. Only at a later time, thanks to the refined associative pathways of poetry, the nouns used to define the colours acquire the general and abstract value that we know.

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Authors & Contributors
Guichard, Luis Arturo
Effie Photos-Jones
Lopez, Francesco
Emanuele Stolfi
Cavallo, Daniela
Chiara Ballestrazzi
Journals
Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
Technai, An International Journal for Ancient Science and Technology
Publishers
Inschibboleth Edizioni
SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo
Peter Lang
Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura
Carocci Editore
Concepts
Medicine
Color
Natural philosophy
Philosophy
Hippocratic medicine
Poetry and poetics
People
Galen
Pliny the Elder
Lucretius
Aristotle
Plato
Euclid
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
20th century
Places
Egypt
Hellenistic world
England
Mediterranean region
Europe
Alexandria (Egypt)
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