Jeffrey Meyers has authored thirty-nine books including celebrated biographies of twentieth century literary masters Orwell, Hemmingway, and Fitzgerald. Meyers is also a Fellow of London's prestigious Royal Society of Literature.

In this article, Meyers compares man's present-day attitudes towards disease, madness, and creativity to the ideas held by ancient Greeks. Meyers asserts that while the modern perception of illness (both mental and physical) is generally negative, disease related to creative imagination is almost always embraced. Ancient Greeks considered disease

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