Galen's Treatise Περὶ Ἀλυπίας (De indolentia) in Context: A Tale of Resilience

Galen's Treatise Περὶ Ἀλυπίας (De indolentia) in Context: A Tale of Resilience

Series:

• Studies in Ancient Medicine, Volume: 52

Editor: Caroline Petit

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 Vivi See More

E-Book

Status:

Published

ISBN:

978-90-04-38330-2

Publication Date:

24 Dec 2018

Hardback

Status:

Published

ISBN:

978-90-04-38328-9

Publication Date:

03 Jan 2019

• Front Matter
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    Copyright page
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  A Long Lost Text: Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας

  By: Caroline Petit

  Pages: 1–9
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  Note on MS Vlatadon 14: a Summary of the Main Findings and Problems

  By: P. N. Singer

  Pages: 10–37
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  Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and Galen’s Œuvre
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    Death, Posterity and the Vulnerable Self: Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας in the Context of His Late Writings

    By: Caroline Petit

    Pages: 41–62
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    Galen and the Language of Old Comedy: Glimpses of a Lost Treatise at Ind. 23b–28

    By: Amy Coker

    Pages: 63–90
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    New Light and Old Texts: Galen on His Own Books

    By: P. N. Singer

    Pages: 91–131
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  Galen’s Distress: Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and the Philosophical Tradition
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    Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας as Philosophical Therapy: How Coherent is It?

    By: Christopher Gill

    Pages: 135–154
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    Galen and the Sceptics (and the Epicureans) on the Unavoidability of Distress

    By: R. J. Hankinson

    Pages: 155–179
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    A New Distress: Galen’s Ethics in Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and Beyond

    By: P. N. Singer

    Pages: 180–198
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    Wisdom and Emotion: Galen’s Philosophical Position in Avoiding Distress

    By: Teun Tieleman

    Pages: 199–215
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  Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and the History of the Roman Empire
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    Galen and the Plague

    By: Rebecca Flemming

    Pages: 219–244
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    Galen and the Last Days of Commodus

    By: Matthew Nicholls

    Pages: 245–262
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  The Lost Readership of Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας
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    Arabic Περὶ Ἀλυπίας: Did al-Kindî and Râzî Read Galen?

    By: Antoine Pietrobelli

    Pages: 265–284
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  Back Matter
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    Index Locorum
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    General Index