1st Edition
Health, Lifestyle, and Elite Culture in Greek and Roman Times
List of Figures vi Introduction 1 1 Contexts 19 2 Defining Health 39 3 Defining Lifestyle 63 4 The Development of Ideas About Health and Lifestyle: From Homer to the Hippocratic Corpus 88 5 The Medical Regulation of Lifestyle for Health 115 6 Personal Behaviour, Lifestyle, and Health 149 7 Moralising Perspectives on Health and Lifestyle 182 8 Personal Circumstances, Lifestyle, and Health 207 Conclusion 247 Index 253
Biography
Konstantine Panegyres is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Western Australia. He completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford, where he was a Clarendon Scholar, and then spent two years as a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne. His research currently focuses on editing ancient manuscripts, especially papyri, and on ancient ideas about health.
