Dossier : Soigner par les lettres La bibliothérapie des Anciens

• Natura: Elettronico Capitolo di libro
• Pubblicazione: Paris-Athènes Éditions de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales 2017
• Serie: Mètis
• Soggetti: Ancient history: to c 500 CE; bibliotherapy; reading physiology; therapeutic writing; curative reading; greco-roman elite
• Accesso online: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

It is well known that texts and the meditation on texts are a therapy for the soul. In Antiquity, Greek and Roman doctors even considered reading, declaming or creating poetry as remedies for healing the body. This dossier of Mètis explores the paradoxical aspect of these ancient conceptions that l...