This volume focuses on the under-explored topic of emotions' implications for ancient medical
theory and practice while it also raises questions about patients' sentiments. Ancient
medicine along with philosophy offer unique windows to professional and scientific
explanatory models of emotions. Thus the contributions included in this volume offer
comparative ground that helps readers and researchers interested in ancient emotions pin down
possible interfaces and differences between systematic and lay cultural understandings of
emotions. Although the volume emphasizes the multifaceted links between medicine and ancient
philosophical thinking especially ethics it also pays due attention to the representation of
patients' feelings in the extant medical treatises and doctors' emotional reticence. The
chapters that constitute this volume investigate a great range of medical writers including
Hippocrates and the Hippocratics and Galen while comparative approaches to medical writings
and philosophy especially Plato Aristotle and the Stoics dwell on the notion of wonder
admiration (thauma) conceptualizations of the body and the soul and the category pathos
itself. The volume also sheds light on the metaphorical uses of medicine in ancient thinking.
