La psychiatrie à Rome. Comprendre et soigner la folie d'après Celse et Caelius Aurelianus. Archéologie généralité set off on the trails

set off on the trails of this mythical country which leads to the "roof of the world"

extravagance

published for the first time in an accessible volume

vases and sticks today dispersed in different collections

such as Kawanabe Kyôsai and Shibata Zeshin

La psychiatrie à Rome. Comprendre et soigner la folie d'après Celse et Caelius Aurelianus. Archéologie généralité set off on the trailsFrom the very beginning, Greek and Roman societies recognized the most serious mental disorders as illnesses, which constituted a social issue and called for appropriate legal responses. However, it was not until the Hellenistic period and in Rome that psychiatry truly emerged. The relatively recent access to the medical corpus in translation now allows us to discover a decisive period in which a complex psychiatric practice and theory emerged, far