Talk:Melancholia
From Academic Kids
Dürer's woodcut is actually entitled Melencholia and is usually referred to by that spelling.
S.
It is? if so please update this page & the Durer page
From the article:
- It was characterized by "aversion to food, despondency, sleeplessness, irritability, restlessness," as well as the statement that "fear or depression that is prolonged means melancholia."
Can anyone say where those quoted passages are from?
Stanley Jackson, Melancholia and Depression: From Hippocratic Times to Modern Times, (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1986) p.30. cites Hippocrates, Works, 1: 263, 4:185. I am not sure how much of this [and in what form] should be included in the article.
I love that image used for this page. Studio1991 06:16, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
