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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 August 2010
      10 December 2009
      ISBN:
      9780511770623
      9780521767514
      9781107410749
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511770623
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.68kg, 346 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 346 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), History, Ancient Philosophy, History of Medicine
      Series:
      Greek Culture in the Roman World
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    Subjects:
    Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), History, Ancient Philosophy, History of Medicine
    Series:
    Greek Culture in the Roman World
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    Book description

    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.

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    '[This] will no doubt become an indispensable item in the bibliography of those working on second-century literature, medicine, philosophy and, more generally, culture.'

    Source: The British Journal for the History of Science

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    • 3 - Demiurge and Emperor in Galen's world of knowledge
      pp 59-84
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