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 mul...

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Other Authors: Petit, Caroline, 1976- (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine 52.
Studies in Ancient Medicine Online, ISBN: 9789004380813.

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Call Number: PA3997

Table of Contents:
  • 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.