On melancholy
By: Rufus of Ephesus ; edited by Peter E. Pormann.
Contributors: Pormann, Peter E.
Series: Sapere -- Bd. 12; Sapere (Darmstadt, Germany) -- Bd. 12.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9783161497605; 9783161497599
Subjects: Rufus, -- of Ephesus; Melancholy -- Early works to 1800; Medicine, Greek and Roman; Mental Disorders
Genres: Early works to 1800
Work titles: On melancholy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-310) and indexes.

Fragments in Arabic, Greek, and Latin with English translation; introduction, commentary, and essays in English.
Table of contents: title: Social stress and political pressure : On melancholy in context / Simon Swain; title: Rufus of Ephesus in the medical context of his time / Vivian Nutton; title: Rufus' On melancholy and its philosophical background / Philip J. van der Eijk; title: Melancholy in the medieval world : the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions / Peter E. Pormann; title: Dürer and Rufus : Melencolia I in the medical tradition / Peter-Klaus Schuster, Jörg Völlnagel; title: Rufus of Ephesus and the tradition of the melancholy thinker / Peter Toohey; title: Rufus' legacy in the psychopathological literature of the (early) modern period / Thomas Rütten.