Galen's treatise Peri alypias (De indolentia) in context a tale of resilience

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-discipl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Petit, Caroline (Editor), Petit, Caroline, 1976- editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill 2019
2018.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Studies in Ancient Medicine 52.
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419765506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • A Long Lost Text: Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας / Caroline Petit
  • Note on MS Vlatadon 14: a Summary of the Main Findings and Problems / P. N. Singer
  • Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and Galen’s Œuvre
  • Death, Posterity and the Vulnerable Self: Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας in the Context of His Late Writings / Caroline Petit
  • Galen and the Language of Old Comedy: Glimpses of a Lost Treatise at Ind. 23b–28 / Amy Coker
  • New Light and Old Texts: Galen on His Own Books / P. N. Singer
  • Galen’s Distress: Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and the Philosophical Tradition
  • Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας as Philosophical Therapy: How Coherent is It? / Christopher Gill
  • Galen and the Sceptics (and the Epicureans) on the Unavoidability of Distress / R. J. Hankinson
  • A New Distress: Galen’s Ethics in Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and Beyond / P. N. Singer
  • Wisdom and Emotion: Galen’s Philosophical Position in Avoiding Distress / Teun Tieleman
  • Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and the History of the Roman Empire
  • Galen and the Plague / Rebecca Flemming
  • Galen and the Last Days of Commodus / Matthew Nicholls
  • The Lost Readership of Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας
  • Arabic Περὶ Ἀλυπίας: Did al-Kindî and Râzî Read Galen? / Antoine Pietrobelli
  • Back Matter
  • Index Locorum
  • General Index.