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

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 327 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Greek culture in the Roman world
Greek culture in the Roman world.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-322) and index.
Summary "This volume of new essays is based on a conference with the same title held at the University of Exeter in 2005. All those speaking on that occasion have written chapters in this volume, along with Riccardo Chiaradonna whose chapter has been specially prepared for the volume. The aim of this volume, like the conference on which it is based, is to contribute to the upsurge of new research on Galen by focusing on a topic that bridges the interests of specialists in ancient medical history and Classicists and philosophers more generally. The conference also represents the convergence of two current focuses of research in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Exeter, on ancient medicine especially Galen and on Hellenistic and Imperial Greek culture more generally"--Provided by publisher.
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.
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Subject Galen.
Galen.
Genre/Form Biography.
Congress.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Gill, Christopher, 1946-
Whitmarsh, Tim.
Wilkins, John, 1954-
Other Form: Print version: Galen and the world of knowledge. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 9780521767514 (DLC) 2009038928 (OCoLC)351329804
ISBN 9780511769832 (electronic book)
0511769830 (electronic book)
0511770626 (electronic book)
9780511770623 (electronic book)
9780521767514 (hardback)
0521767512 (hardback)