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1 online resource (xv, 331 pages) : illustrations. |
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monochrome |
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text file |
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Sapere ; Bd. 12
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Sapere (Darmstadt, Germany) ; Bd. 12.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-310) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Text and translation / Peter E. Pormann -- Commentary / Peter E. Pormann -- Social stress and political pressure : On melancholy in context / Simon Swain -- The medical world of Rufus of Ephesus / Vivian Nutton -- Rufus' On melancholy and its pholosophical background / Philip J. van der Eijk -- Melancholy in the medieval world : the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions / Peter E. Pormann -- Dürer and Rufus : Melencolia I in the medical tradition / Peter-Klaus Schuster, Jörg Völlnagel -- Rufus of Ephesus and the tradition of the melancholy thinker / Peter Toohey -- Rufus' legacy in the psychopathological literature of the (early) modern period / Thomas Rütten -- Greek text, and Arabic and English translations of Galen's On the affected parts iii. 9-10 / Philip J. van der Eijk, Peter E. Pormann -- Isḥāq ibm ʻImrān on scholarly melancholy / Peter E. Pormann -- Melancholy in ar-Rāzī's Book of experiences / Peter E. Pormann. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Summary |
Rufus of Ephesus' (fl. ca. AD 100) On Melancholy deals with a medical condition oscillating between madness, depression, and bouts of great creativity. This collection of the Greek, Latin, and Arabic fragments makes this text easily available for the first time. |
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
Fragments in Arabic, Greek, and Latin with English translation; introduction, commentary, and essays in English. |
| Subject |
Rufus, of Ephesus. On melancholy.
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Melancholy -- Early works to 1800.
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Melancholy. |
| Chronological Term |
Early works to 1800 |
| Subject |
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
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Medicine, Greek and Roman. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Early works.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Pormann, Peter E.
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| Added Title |
On melancholy. Polyglot https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009061652
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rufus, of Ephesus. On melancholy. Polyglot. On melancholy. Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, ©2008 (DLC) 2009378552 (OCoLC)276807143 |
| ISBN |
9783161564420 (electronic book) |
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3161564421 (electronic book) |
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9783161497605 (electronic book) |
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3161497600 (electronic book) |
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9783161497599 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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3161497597 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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