Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgments VII
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Disease and the (Un)Making of the World 11
6. 2 Disease, Closure and the Sense of an Ending 37
7. 3 Disease and the Marvellous. Epilepsy in Book 3 and 6 76
8. 4 From Callimachean Aesthetics to the Sublime. The Plague in Book 6 122
9. 5 Afterword 173
10. Bibliography 175
11. Index Rerum et Nominum 197
12. Index Locorum 203