(Ancient Greek) Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness @ClassicsConfidentia1

(Ancient Greek) Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness @ClassicsConfidentia1

Uploaded April 2010 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

Can PhD research be therapeutic? Does prolonged sadness make you clever? Find out in this week's interview, in which Georgios Kazantzidis from Christchurch College, Oxford, tells us about his work on the ancient Greek disease of melancholy.

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(Ancient Greek) Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness