Galen's Treatise Περὶ Ἀλυπίας (De indolentia) in Context

Galen's Treatise Περὶ Ἀλυπίας (De indolentia) in Context
Author: Caroline Petit
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2018-12-24
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9004383301

This collective volume arises from a Wellcome-funded conference held at the University of Warwick in 2014 about the “new” Galen discovered in 2005 in a Greek manuscript, De indolentia. In the wake of the latest English translation published by Vivian Nutton in 2013, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to the new text, discussing in turn issues around Galen’s literary production, his medical and philosophical contribution to the theme of avoiding distress (ἀλυπία), controversial topics in Roman history such as the Antonine plague and the reign of Commodus, and finally the reception of the text in the Islamic world. Gathering eleven contributions by recognised specialists of Galen, Greek literature and Roman history, it revisits the new text extensively.

Galen's De Indolentia

Galen's De Indolentia
Author: Clare K. Rothschild
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Ethics
ISBN: 9783161532153

This volume includes a brand new English translation of the text, a collation of all discrepancies among the leading critical editions of the Greek text, and essays by eminent Classicists and scholars in the field of early Christianity on different aspects of this fascinating new text."--

The Prince of Medicine

The Prince of Medicine
Author: Susan P. Mattern
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2013
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 019976767X

This book is a biography of the physician Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129 - ca. 216), who began his remarkable career tending to wounded gladiators in provincial Asia Minor. Later in life he achieved great distinction as one of a small circle of court physicians to the family of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, at the very heart of Roman society. --From publisher's description.

Galen's Theory of Black Bile

Galen's Theory of Black Bile
Author: Keith Andrew Stewart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Bile
ISBN: 9789004382787

In Galen's Theory of Black Bile: Hippocratic Tradition, Manipulation, Innovation Keith Stewart analyses Galen's characterisation of black bile to understand the different ways it is used in his arguments that cannot always be reconciled with the content of his sources.

Galen and the World of Knowledge

Galen and the World of Knowledge
Author: Christopher Gill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2009-12-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0521767512

This study places Galen more firmly in the intellectual life of his period of the second century AD.

Thinking, Knowing, Acting: Epistemology and Ethics in Plato and Ancient Platonism

Thinking, Knowing, Acting: Epistemology and Ethics in Plato and Ancient Platonism
Author: Mauro Bonazzi
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2019-04-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004398996

Thinking, Knowing, Acting: Epistemology and Ethics in Plato and Ancient Platonism aims to offer a fresh perspective on the correlation between epistemology and ethics in Plato and the Platonic tradition from Aristotle to Plotinus, by investigating the social, juridical and theoretical premises of their philosophy.

Galen: Works on Human Nature: Volume 1, Mixtures (De Temperamentis)

Galen: Works on Human Nature: Volume 1, Mixtures (De Temperamentis)
Author:
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2019-01-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1108662196

Mixtures is of central importance for Galen's views on the human body. It presents his influential typology of the human organism according to nine mixtures (or 'temperaments') of hot, cold, dry and wet. It also develops Galen's ideal of the 'well-tempered' person, whose perfect balance ensures excellent performance both physically and psychologically. Mixtures teaches the aspiring doctor how to assess the patient's mixture by training one's sense of touch and by a sophisticated use of diagnostic indicators. It presents a therapeutic regime based on the interaction between foods, drinks, drugs and the body's mixture. Mixtures is a work of natural philosophy as well as medicine. It acknowledges Aristotle's profound influence whilst engaging with Hippocratic ideas on health and nutrition, and with Stoic, Pneumatist and Peripatetic physics. It appears here in a new translation, with generous annotation, introduction and glossaries elucidating the argument and setting the work in its intellectual context.

Empire of Letters

Empire of Letters
Author: Stephanie Ann Frampton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2019-01-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190915412

Shedding new light on the history of the book in antiquity, Empire of Letters tells the story of writing at Rome at the pivotal moment of transition from Republic to Empire (c. 55 BCE-15 CE). By uniting close readings of the period's major authors with detailed analysis of material texts, it argues that the physical embodiments of writing were essential to the worldviews and self-fashioning of authors whose works took shape in them. Whether in wooden tablets, papyrus bookrolls, monumental writing in stone and bronze, or through the alphabet itself, Roman authors both idealized and competed with writing's textual forms. The academic study of the history of the book has arisen largely out of the textual abundance of the age of print, focusing on the Renaissance and after. But fewer than fifty fragments of classical Roman bookrolls survive, and even fewer lines of poetry. Understanding the history of the ancient Roman book requires us to think differently about this evidence, placing it into the context of other kinds of textual forms that survive in greater numbers, from the fragments of Greek papyri preserved in the garbage heaps of Egypt to the Latin graffiti still visible on the walls of the cities destroyed by Vesuvius. By attending carefully to this kind of material in conjunction with the rich literary testimony of the period, Empire of Letters exposes the importance of textuality itself to Roman authors, and puts the written word back at the center of Roman literature.

Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times

Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times
Author: William V. Harris
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2018-09-04
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9004379509

Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times attempts to blaze a trail for the cross-disciplinary humanistic study of pain and pleasure, with literature scholars, historians and philosophers all setting out to understand how the Greeks and Romans experienced, managed and reasoned about the sensations and experiences they felt as painful or pleasurable. The book is intended to provoke discussion of a wide range of problems in the cultural history of antiquity. It addresses both the physicality of erôs and illness, and physiological and philosophical doctrines, especially hedonism and anti-hedonism in their various forms. Fine points of terminology (Greek is predictably rich in this area) receive careful attention. Authors in question run from Homer to (among others) the Hippocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, Seneca, Plutarch, Galen and the Aristotle-commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias.