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 mult...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2019]
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| Series: | Studies in ancient medicine ;
v. 52. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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, 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. |
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| Item Description: | "This collective volume arises from a Wellcome-funded conference held at the University of Warwick in 2014"--ECIP data view. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 296 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789004383302 9004383301 |