Galen and the World of Knowledge

Herausgeber: Gill, Christopher; Wilkins, John; Whitmarsh, Tim

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781107410749
• ISBN-10: 1107410746
• Artikelnr.: 36055441

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Christopher Gill, Tim Whitmarsh and John Wilkins; 1. Galen's
library Vivian Nutton; 2. Conventions of prefatory self-presentation in
Galen's On the Order of My Own Books Jason König; 3. Demiurge and emperor
in Galen's world of knowledge Rebecca Flemming; 4. Shock and awe: the
performance dimension of Galen's anatomy demonstrations Maud Gleason; 5.
Galen's un-Hippocratic case-histories G. E. R. Lloyd; 6. Staging the past,
staging oneself: Galen on Hellenistic exegetical traditions Heinrich von
Staden; 7. Galen and Hippocratic medicine: language and practice Daniela
Manetti; 8. Galen's Bios and Methodos: from ways of life to paths of
knowledge Véronique Boudon-Millot; 9. Does Galen have a medical programme
for intellectuals and the faculties of the intellect? Jacques Jouanna; 10.
Galen on the limitations of knowledge R. J. Hankinson; 11. Galen and Middle
Platonism Riccardo Chiaradonna; 12. 'Aristotle! What a thing for you to
say!' Galen's engagement with Aristotle and Aristotelians Philip van der
Eijk; 13. Galen and the Stoics, or: the art of not naming Teun Tieleman.