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- Title
LA MALATTIA DELLE FIGLIE DEL SOLE MANIA, MALINCONIA E MAL D'AMORE DAL MITO ALLE FONTI SCIENTIFICHE.
- Authors
GAZZANIGA, VALENTINA; MARINOZZI, SILVIA
- Abstract
The article focuses on diseases including mania, melancholy, and love sickness in ancient mythological and scientific sources. Topics discussed include the informal relationship between black bile and lovesickness, which leads to a disease in which black bile overheats; the relationship between melancholy and lovesickness in the medical sources; and the mythological stories of Pasiphae, Ariadne, Phaedra and Medea.
- Subjects
MANIA; LOVESICKNESS; MELANCHOLY; MYTHOLOGY; BILE; PASIPHAE (Greek mythology); ARIADNE (Greek mythology); PHAEDRA (Greek mythology)
- Publication
Medicina nei Secoli: Arte e Scienza, 2014, Vol 26, Issue 3, p679
- ISSN
0394-9001
- Publication type
Article