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subject	book bibliographic info
therapies, cicero, platonizing roman statesman, orator, use of many	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 176, 177
therapies, plato, anticipates later	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 213
therapy	Clarke, King, Baltussen (2023), Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering. 243 Despotis and Lohr (2022), Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions, 178, 179, 193 Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 171, 206, 207, 210 Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 130, 195, 232, 233 Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 394, 395 Taylor and Hay (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Contemplative Life: Introduction, Translation and Commentary, 111, 112 Wilson (2012), The Sentences of Sextus, 224 Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 218
therapy, also therapeutic	Singer and van Eijk (2018), Galen: Works on Human Nature: Volume 1, Mixtures (De Temperamentis), 2, 9, 13, 25, 69, 71, 127, 130, 144, 152, 153, 182
therapy, attack second seneca, the younger, stoic, judgement, rather than first	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 165, 175, 178
therapy, attacks on 1st judgement	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 179
therapy, attacks on 2nd judgment	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 175, 178
therapy, available to non-stoics, chrysippus, stoic, already in antiquity, views seen as orthodox for stoics tended to be ascribed to chrysippus, makes	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 166, 178
therapy, avoiding temptation vs. learning how to handle	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 286
therapy, behavioural, therapy,	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 271, 272
therapy, body, contribution of body to emotion and its	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 25, 96, 119, 142, 146, 153, 203, 204, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 293
therapy, by giving a taste, pythagoras, presocratic	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 298
therapy, by opposites, pleasure excludes aristotle, anger, fear excludes pity	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 298
therapy, by opposites, stoics, see under individual stoics, esp. chrysippus, whose views came to be seen already in antiquity as stoic orthodoxy, so that conversely, views seen as orthodox tended to be ascribed to him	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 298
therapy, by similars, socrates	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 221
therapy, can exploit half-truths in chrysippus' therapy, analysis, e.g. a non-conceptual necessity for judgements	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 140
therapy, can use falsehoods, therapy	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 223
therapy, catharsis, iamblichus, alternative to aversion	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287
therapy, catharsis, simplicius, connotes aversion	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 297
therapy, cognitive, therapy,	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 153
therapy, democritean maxims as	Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 218, 237, 238
therapy, democritus, presocratic, cognitive	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 18
therapy, directed to situations, chrysippus, stoic, already in antiquity, views seen as orthodox for stoics tended to be ascribed to chrysippus	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 211
therapy, distracts attention, attention, epicurean	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 27, 88, 177, 216, 233, 234
therapy, does not dispute loss except in cleanthes, consolation writings, but stoic	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 165, 175
therapy, esp. to past, epicurus, distracting attention as	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 27, 88, 165, 177, 216, 233, 234
therapy, for opposites, aristo of ceos, aristotelian	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 298
therapy, for pride, aristo of ceos, aristotelian	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 222, 298, 370
therapy, iamblichus, neoplatonist, alternative defences of phallic festivals, metriopatheia by catharsis or aversion	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 286
therapy, indifferents, preferred and dispreferred, relation to	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180
therapy, memory, value of	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 231, 232, 233, 234
therapy, metabolism from physical medicine	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 17, 18, 19
therapy, metaneira	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 96, 97, 174, 213
therapy, mindfulness, as soul/spiritual	Taylor and Hay (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Contemplative Life: Introduction, Translation and Commentary, 111, 112, 137
therapy, moral	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 124
therapy, music as	Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 618, 619, 620, 622, 624, 625, 626
therapy, music, as	Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 618, 619, 620, 622, 624, 625, 626
therapy, of desire in remedia amoris, ovid	Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 129
therapy, of emotions, passio, perturbatio	Nisula (2012), Augustine and the Functions of Concupiscence, 78, 205, 243, 247
therapy, on second judgement, chrysippus, stoic, already in antiquity, views seen as orthodox for stoics tended to be ascribed to chrysippus, concentrates	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 32, 175, 177, 178
therapy, only restricted appeal to indifference	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 175, 176, 179, 180
therapy, opposites	Joosse (2021), Olympiodorus of Alexandria: Exegete, Teacher, Platonic Philosopher, 105
therapy, or a need for appearance	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 132, 163
therapy, physical, therapies,	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 256, 258, 259, 260, 270, 271, 272
therapy, pythagoreanism xxv, and music as	Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 618, 619, 620, 622
therapy, recognizing what is not in your power and its indifference	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 215
therapy, reinforcement	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 216
therapy, relabelling	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 115, 179, 222
therapy, relation of philosophy to techniques	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 161, 162, 163
therapy, relation to catharsis, therapy, aversion	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 286, 297
therapy, retrospective vs. prospective	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 161, 212
therapy, seneca, the younger, stoic, hence emotion subject to	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 69, 70
therapy, simplicius, repentance, catharsis combined with aversion	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 297
therapy, socrates, behaviour	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 271, 272
therapy, speech	Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 147, 161, 162, 163
therapy, suspending judgement	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 271
therapy, switching attention	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 165, 271
therapy, techniques see esp.	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252
therapy, therapy, philosophical contributions to, i, voluntariness of emotion	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 45, 46, 47, 69, 70
therapy, uses frank criticism	Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 207
therapy, valuing suicide	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 214

List of validated texts:

11 validated results for "therapy"

1. None, None, nan (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Pythagoreanism xxv, and music as therapy • Therapy • Therapy, Techniques see esp. • music, as therapy • therapy, music as

Found in books: Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 224; Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 619

2. None, None, nan (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Attention, Epicurean therapy distracts attention • Chrysippus, Stoic (already in antiquity, views seen as orthodox for Stoics tended to be ascribed to Chrysippus), Concentrates therapy on second judgement • Chrysippus, Stoic (already in antiquity, views seen as orthodox for Stoics tended to be ascribed to Chrysippus), Makes therapy available to non-Stoics • Cicero, Platonizing Roman statesman, orator, Use of many therapies • Consolation writings, But Stoic therapy does not dispute loss except in Cleanthes • Epicurus, Distracting attention as therapy, esp. to past • Indifferents, preferred and dispreferred, Relation to therapy • Memory, Therapeutic value • Ovid, therapy of desire in Remedia amoris • Past, present, future, Memory of past, therapeutic value or disvalue • Seneca, the Younger, Stoic, Hence emotion subject to therapy • Seneca, the Younger, Stoic, Therapy, attack second judgement, rather than first • Therapy • Therapy, Attacks on 2nd judgment • Therapy, Memory, value of • Therapy, Metabolism from physical medicine • Therapy, Only restricted appeal to indifference • Therapy, Philosophical contributions to therapy (i) Voluntariness of emotion • Therapy, Relation of philosophy to techniques • Therapy, Switching attention • Therapy, Techniques see esp. • anger control discourse, Stoic therapy • therapy of the soul, • therapy, moral

Found in books: Atkins (2021), The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy 160, 162, 163; Keane (2015), Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions, 82; Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 124; Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 19, 32, 45, 46, 70, 162, 165, 175, 177, 178, 233, 236, 241; Williams and Vol (2022), Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher, 129

3. New Testament, Acts, 20.31 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • therapeutic trust • therapy

Found in books: Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 195; Morgan (2022), The New Testament and the Theology of Trust: 'This Rich Trust', 283

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20.31 διὸ γρηγορεῖτε, μνημονεύοντες

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20.31 Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn't cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears. "" None

4. New Testament, Matthew, 26.39 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Therapy • Therapy, Techniques see esp. • therapeutic trust

Found in books: Morgan (2022), The New Testament and the Theology of Trust: 'This Rich Trust', 189, 222; Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 219

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26.39 καὶ προελθὼν μικρὸν ἔπεσεν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ προσευχόμενος καὶ λέγων Πάτερ μου, εἰ δυνατόν ἐστιν, παρελθάτω ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ τὸ ποτήριον τοῦτο· πλὴν οὐχ ὡς ἐγὼ θέλω ἀλλʼ ὡς σύ.'' None

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26.39 He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire."'' None

5. Seneca The Younger, Letters, 94.51, 108.14-108.16 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Body, Contribution of body to emotion and its therapy • Therapy • Therapy, Cognitive therapy • Therapy, Techniques see esp. • Therapy, Valuing suicide • therapy

Found in books: Despotis and Lohr (2022), Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions, 178; Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 232; Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 153, 214

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94.51 Moreover, if one awaits the time when one can know of oneself what the best line of action is, one will sometimes go astray and by going astray will be hindered from arriving at the point where it is possible to be content with oneself. The soul should accordingly be guided at the very moment when it is becoming able to guide itself.25 Boys study according to direction. Their fingers are held and guided by others so that they may follow the outlines of the letters; next, they are ordered to imitate a copy and base thereon a style of penmanship. Similarly, the mind is helped if it is taught according to direction. ^94.51 Then comes the second problem, – how to deal with men. What is our purpose? What precepts do we offer? Should we bid them refrain from bloodshed? What a little thing it is not to harm one whom you ought to help! It is indeed worthy of great praise, when man treats man with kindness! Shall we advise stretching forth the hand to the shipwrecked sailor, or pointing out the way to the wanderer, or sharing a crust with the starving? Yes, if I can only tell you first everything which ought to be afforded or withheld; meantime, I can lay down for mankind a rule, in short compass, for our duties in human relationships: ^108.14 And in truth, when he began to uphold poverty, and to show what a useless and dangerous burden was everything that passed the measure of our need, I often desired to leave his lecture-room a poor man. Whenever he castigated our pleasure-seeking lives, and extolled personal purity, moderation in diet, and a mind free from unnecessary, not to speak of unlawful, pleasures, the desire came upon me to limit my food and drink. ^108.15 And that is why some of these habits have stayed with me, Lucilius. For I had planned my whole life with great resolves. And later, when I returned to the duties of a citizen, I did indeed keep a few of these good resolutions. That is why I have forsaken oysters and mushrooms for ever: since they are not really food, but are relishes to bully the sated stomach into further eating, as is the fancy of gourmands and those who stuff themselves beyond their powers of digestion: down with it quickly, and up with it quickly! ^108.16 That is why I have also throughout my life avoided perfumes; because the best scent for the person is no scent at all.11 That is why my stomach is unacquainted with wine. That is why throughout my life I have shunned the bath, and have believed that to emaciate the body and sweat it into thinness is at once unprofitable and effeminate. Other resolutions have been broken, but after all in such a way that, in cases where I ceased to practice abstinence, I have observed a limit which is indeed next door to abstinence; perhaps it is even a little more difficult, because it is easier for the will to cut off certain things utterly than to use them with restraint. '' None

6. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Therapy • Therapy, Techniques see esp. • Therapy, Valuing suicide • anger control discourse, Stoic therapy

Found in books: Keane (2015), Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions, 82; Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 214

7. None, None, nan (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Asklepios, types of therapeutic dreams • Double dreams and visions, examples, therapeutic, personal and popular material • Dreams and visions, examples, Popular, personal, therapeutic • Dreams and visions, therapeutic • Incubation, divinatory vs. therapeutic incubation • political power, therapeutic power • therapeutes • therapeutic benefits of dreaming

Found in books: Borg (2008), Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic, 329; Dignas Parker and Stroumsa (2013), Priests and Prophets Among Pagans, Jews and Christians, 63, 74; Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 77; Moxon (2017), Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective. 210, 397, 398, 399, 400, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 483, 484; Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 22, 217, 218

8. None, None, nan (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Asklepios, types of therapeutic dreams • Dreams and visions, examples, Popular, personal, therapeutic

Found in books: Moxon (2017), Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective. 393; Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 214

9. None, None, nan (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Body, Contribution of body to emotion and its therapy • Therapeutic or prophylactic manipulation • Therapy, Cognitive therapy • Therapy, Physical therapies • Therapy, Relation of philosophy to techniques • Therapy, or a need for appearance

Found in books: Inwood and Warren (2020), Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy, 87; Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 96, 119, 153, 163, 258, 259

10. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 10.7 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Catharsis, Iamblichus, alternative to aversion therapy • Metaneira, therapy,

Found in books: Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 213; Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 283

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10.7 further, that Epicurus's acquaintance with philosophy was small and his acquaintance with life even smaller; that his bodily health was pitiful, so much so that for many years he was unable to rise from his chair; and that he spent a whole mina daily on his table, as he himself says in his letter to Leontion and in that to the philosophers at Mitylene. Also that among other courtesans who consorted with him and Metrodorus were Mammarion and Hedia and Erotion and Nikidion. He alleges too that in his thirty-seven books On Nature Epicurus uses much repetition and writes largely in sheer opposition to others, especially to Nausiphanes, and here are his own words: Nay, let them go hang: for, when labouring with an idea, he too had the sophist's off-hand boastfulness like many another servile soul;"" None

11. None, None, nan (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Dreams and visions, examples, Popular, personal, therapeutic • Sarapis, question of therapeutic incubation at lesser Egyptian Sarapieia

Found in books: Moxon (2017), Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective. 393; Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 341

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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