The drama of disease: Tragedy and Medicine in the Construction of Platonic Dramatis Personae
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Disease is a cross-cultural event, because it interferes with the course of culture, politics, the arts, and the morals of a people. It was also, from the origins of Western thought, a point of contact between Tragedy, Medicine and Philosophy. This paper intends to follow closely the strategies by which Plato appropriated elements of medicine and theater to build his dramatis personae diseased, and then try to understand one of the reasons for his distancing himself from the tragedy in the Republic.
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