Aretaeus and the Ekphrasis of Agony

IF 0.9 2区 历史学 0 CLASSICS CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY Pub Date : 2020-12-22 DOI:10.1525/CA.2020.39.2.153
Maud W. Gleason
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As an imperial Greek author of both cultural and stylistic interest, Aretaeus deserves to be more widely read. His most riveting disease descriptions bring before our eyes the spectacle of the human body in extreme states of suffering and dehumanization. These descriptions achieve a degree of visual immediacy and emotional impact unparalleled among ancient medical writers. This essay considers them as examples of ekphrastic rhetoric, designed to create enargeia. To intensify immediacy and impact, Aretaeus deploys a set of techniques that invite the reader’s active engagement with the spectacle he describes. This engagement has the potential to generate a corporeal response that destabilizes the boundary between the body of the reader and the body in the text. The modern concept of “empathy” is perhaps too anodyne to convey the complexity of the response involved.
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阿雷泰厄斯和痛苦的措辞
作为一位具有文化和文体双重兴趣的希腊帝国作家,阿雷塔乌斯值得更广泛地阅读。他对疾病最引人入胜的描述使我们看到了人体处于极度痛苦和非人化状态的景象。这些描述达到了某种程度的视觉即时性和情感影响,这在古代医学作家中是无与伦比的。这篇文章将它们视为ekphrastic修辞的例子,旨在创造enargeia。为了增强即时性和影响力,阿雷塔乌斯运用了一套技巧,邀请读者积极参与他所描述的奇观。这种参与有可能产生一种物质反应,破坏读者身体和文本中身体之间的边界。“同理心”的现代概念可能过于温和,无法传达所涉及的反应的复杂性。
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