Therapoetics after Actium : Narrative, Medicine, and Authority in Augustan Epic / Julia Nelson Hawkins
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Medicine and epic: an overview -- Hellenistic therapoetics: the transformation of Greek epic -- From bucolics to bougonia: plague in Virgil -- Ovid and plague in the Metamorphoses -- Virgil and medical botany: Aeneid 12 and Roman therapy -- Gynecology and the state in the Metamorphoses -- Epilogue: the legacy of therapoetics in war and epic: medicine in the Roman revolution and Fracastoro's syphilis
