Galen and the world of knowledge / edited by Christopher Gill, Tim Whitmarsh, John Wilkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gill, Christopher,. 1946- editor.

Whitmarsh, Tim,., editor.

Wilkins, John,. 1954- editor.

Series:

Greek culture in the Roman world.

Greek culture in the Roman world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Galen.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 327 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Galen & the World of Knowledge

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Galen is the most important medical writer in Graeco-Roman antiquity, and also extremely valuable for understanding Graeco-Roman thought and society in the second century AD. This volume of essays locates him firmly in the intellectual life of his period, and thus aims to make better sense of the medical and philosophical 'world of knowledge' that he tries to create. How did Galen present himself as a reader and an author in comparison with other intellectuals of his day? Above all, how did he fashion himself as a medical practitioner, and how does that self-fashioning relate to the performance culture of second-century Rome? Did he see medicine as taking over some of the traditional roles of philosophy? These and other questions are freshly addressed by leading international experts on Galen and the intellectual life of the period, in a stimulating collection that combines learning with accessibility.

Contents:

Introduction / Christopher Gill, Tim Whitmarsh and John Wilkins

Galen's library / Vivian Nutton

Conventions of prefatory self-presentation in Galen's On the Order of My Own Books / Jason König

Demiurge and emperor in Galen's world of knowledge / Rebecca Flemming

Shock and awe: the performance dimension of Galen's anatomy demonstrations / Maud Gleason

Galen's un-Hippocratic case-histories / G.E.R. Lloyd

Staging the past, staging oneself: Galen on Hellenistic exegetical traditions / Heinrich von Staden

Galen and Hippocratic medicine: language and practice / Daniela Manetti

Galen's Bios and Methodos: from ways of life to paths of knowledge / Véronique Boudon-Millot

Does Galen have a medical programme for intellectuals and the faculties of the intellect? / Jacques Jouanna

Galen on the limitations of knowledge / R.J. Hankinson

Galen and Middle Platonism / Riccardo Chiaradonna

'Aristotle! What a thing for you to say!' Galen's engagement with Aristotle and Aristotelians / Philip van der Eijk

Galen and the Stoics, or: the art of not naming / Teun Tieleman.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-84795-5

1-107-20909-9

1-107-41074-6

1-282-65164-1

9786612651649

0-511-76899-0

0-511-76676-9

0-511-76983-0

0-511-76537-1

0-511-76815-X

OCLC:

645097687