On melancholy / Rufus of Ephesus ; edited by Peter E. Pormann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rufus, of Ephesus

Contributor:

Pormann, Peter E.

Series:

Sapere (Darmstadt, Germany) ; Bd. 12.

Sapere ; Bd. 12

Standardized Title:

On melancholy. Polyglot

Language:

Arabic

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Melancholy--Early works to 1800.

Melancholy.

Rufus, of Ephesus. On melancholy.

Rufus.

Medicine, Greek and Roman.

Mental Disorders.

Medical Subjects:

Mental Disorders.

Physical Description:

xv, 331 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2008]

Language Note:

Fragments in Arabic, Greek, and Latin with English translation; introduction, commentary, and essays in English.

Contents:

Text and translation / Peter E. Pormann

Commentary / Peter E. Pormann

Social stress and political pressure : On melancholy in context / Simon Swain

The medical world of Rufus of Ephesus / Vivian Nutton

Rufus' On melancholy and its pholosophical background / Philip J. van der Eijk

Melancholy in the medieval world : the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions / Peter E. Pormann

Dürer and Rufus : Melencolia I in the medical tradition / Peter-Klaus Schuster, Jörg Völlnagel

Rufus of Ephesus and the tradition of the melancholy thinker / Peter Toohey

Rufus' legacy in the psychopathological literature of the (early) modern period / Thomas Rütten

Greek text, and Arabic and English translations of Galen's On the affected parts iii. 9-10 / Philip J. van der Eijk, Peter E. Pormann

Isḥāq ibm ʻImrān on scholarly melancholy / Peter E. Pormann

Melancholy in ar-Rāzī's Book of experiences / Peter E. Pormann.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-310) and indexes.

ISBN:

9783161497605

3161497600

9783161497599

3161497597

OCLC:

276807143