Galen's De indolentia
Subtitle: essays on a newly discovered letter
By: edited by Clare K. Rothschild and Trevor W. Thompson
Contributors: Galen
Series: Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum = -- Studies and texts in antiquity and Christianity -- 88; Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum -- 88.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9783161532153
Copyright date: 2014
Description: "The recently discovered letter De indolentia is a moral-philosophical treatise in which Galen describes his response to the fire in the city of Rome (192 CE) that destroyed a significant portion of his library and medicines. In addition to essays on important aspects of the text, this volume includes an English translation, a collation of leading critical editions, and an expansive bibliography"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Galen of Pergamon; title: Introduction (with illustration of Vlatadon 14) / Clare K. Rothschild, Trevor W. Thompson; title: English translation. Galen: "On the avoidance of distress" / Clare K. Rothschild, Trevor W. Thompson; title: Vlatadon 14 and Ambrosianus Q 3 sup : two twin manuscripts / Véronique Boudon-Millot; title: Some quotations from Galen's De indolentia / Daniel Davies; title: A library at Antium? / Matthew C. Nicholls; title: Collecting books, acquiring medicines : knowledge acquisition in Galen's Therapeutics / Alain Touwaide; title: Galen, De indolentia : commonplaces, traditions, and contexts / Paraskevi Kotzia; title: Galen's De indolentia and the creation of a personal philosophy / Elizabeth Asmis; title: Galen's intellectual self-portrait in De indolentia / Janet Downie; title: Philology and the rhetoric of catastrophe in Galen's De indolentia / Ralph M. Rosen; title: The Apocolocyntosis of Commodus or the anti-imperial Tendenz of Galen's De indolentia / Clare K. Rothschild; title: Galen's De indolentia in the context of Greco-Roman medicine, moral philosophy, and physiognomy / John T. Fitzgerald; title: The pathology and cure of grief : Galen's De indolentia in context / L. Michael White; title: Possessions, distress, and the problem of emotions : De indolentia and the Gospel of Luke in juxtaposition / Richard A. Wright; title: Collation of the critical editions of Galen's De indolentia / Trevor W. Thompson.