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Author : Peter E. Pormann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107068209
Accessible and up-to-date introduction to the legacy of Hippocrates, the man and the writings attributed to him.
Author : Peter E. Pormann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108593601
Hippocrates is a towering figure in Greek medicine. Dubbed the 'father of medicine', he has inspired generations of physicians over millennia in both the East and West. Despite this, little is known about him, and scholars have long debated his relationship to the works attributed to him in the so-called 'Hippocratic Corpus', although it is undisputed that many of the works within it represent milestones in the development of Western medicine. In this Companion, an international team of authors introduces major themes in Hippocratic studies, ranging from textual criticism and the 'Hippocratic question' to problems such as aetiology, physiology and nosology. Emphasis is given to the afterlife of Hippocrates from Late Antiquity to the modern period. Hippocrates had as much relevance in the fifth-century BC Greek world as in the medieval Islamic world, and he remains with us today in both medical and non-medical contexts.
Author : R. J. Hankinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139826914
Galen of Pergamum (AD 129–c.216) was the most influential doctor of later antiquity, whose work was to influence medical theory and practice for more than fifteen hundred years. He was a prolific writer on anatomy, physiology, diagnosis and prognosis, pulse-doctrine, pharmacology, therapeutics, and the theory of medicine; but he also wrote extensively on philosophical topics, making original contributions to logic and the philosophy of science, and outlining a scientific epistemology which married a deep respect for empirical adequacy with a commitment to rigorous rational exposition and demonstration. He was also a vigorous polemicist, deeply involved in the doctrinal disputes among the medical schools of his day. This volume offers an introduction to and overview of Galen's achievement in all these fields, while seeking also to evaluate that achievement in the light of the advances made in Galen scholarship over the past thirty years.
Author : Paul Erdkamp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521896290
A highly accessible survey of life in the capital of the Roman Empire, the largest metropolis of its day.
Author : Brad Inwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521779855
This unique volume offers an odyssey through the ideas of the Stoics in three particular ways: first, through the historical trajectory of the school itself and its influence; second, through the recovery of the history of Stoic thought; third, through the ongoing confrontation with Stoicism, showing how it refines philosophical traditions, challenges the imagination, and ultimately defines the kind of life one chooses to lead. A distinguished roster of specialists have written an authoritative guide to the entire philosophical tradition. The first two chapters chart the history of the school in the ancient world, and are followed by chapters on the core themes of the Stoic system: epistemology, logic, natural philosophy, theology, determinism, and metaphysics. There are two chapters on what might be thought of as the heart and soul of the Stoics system: ethics.
Author : Roger D. Woodard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521845205
Guides the reader through the fascinating field of ancient Greek myth from its origins to modern interpretations in writing and film.
Author : Joshua Billings,Christopher Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108494687
Introduces the Sophists and their time: a period of cultural enlightenment in thought, language, pedagogy, and performance.
Author : S. M. Connell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107197732
Comprehensive overview of all the key issues in Aristotle's biological works and their place within his broader philosophy and theology.
Author : Jonathan Ben-Dov,Lutz Doering
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107108967
Time stands at the heart of human experience. In this book, new investigations illuminate the gamut of human engagement with time in antiquity.
Author : Christopher Gill,Tim Whitmarsh,John Wilkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521767514
This study places Galen more firmly in the intellectual life of his period of the second century AD.
Author : A. A. Long
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521446678
A 1999 Companion to Greek philosophy, invaluable for new readers, and for specialists.
Author : Petros Bouras-Vallianatos,Barbara Zipser
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004394353
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the corpus of the second-century AD Greek physician Galen of Pergamum. In 31 chapters, written by a range of experts in the field, it shows how Galen was adopted, adapted, admired, contested, and criticised across diverse intellectual environments and geographical regions, from Late Antiquity to the present day, and from Europe to North Africa, the Middle and the Far East. The volume offers both introductory material and new analysis on the transmission and dissemination of Galen’s works and ideas through translations into Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew and other languages, the impact of Galenic thought on medical practice, as well as his influence in non-medical contexts, including philosophy and alchemy.
Author : P. J. Finglass,Adrian Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107189058
A detailed up-to-date survey of the most important woman writer from Greco-Roman antiquity. Examines the nature and context of her poetic achievement, the transmission, loss and rediscovery of her poetry, and the reception of that poetry in cultures far removed from ancient Greece, including Latin America, India, China, and Japan.
Author : Mark Schiefsky
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047405016
This volume presents an up-to-date Greek text of the Hippocratic treatise On Ancient Medicine along with a new English translation, a detailed commentary focusing on questions of medical and scientific method, and an introduction that places the work in its intellectual context.
Author : Chiara Thumiger
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004443143
This volume aims at exploring the ancient roots of ‘holistic’ approaches in the specific field of medicine and the life sciences, without, however, overlooking the larger theoretical implications of these discussions. Therefore, the project plans to broaden the perspective to include larger cultural discussions and, in a comparative spirit, reach out to some examples from non Graeco-Roman medical cultures. As such, it constitutes a fundamental contribution to history of medicine, philosophy of medicine, cultural studies, and ancient studies more broadly. The wide-ranging selection of chapters offers a comprehensive view of an exciting new field: the interrogation of ancient sources in the light of modern concepts in philosophy of medicine, as justification of the claim for their enduring relevance as object of study and, at the same time, as means to a more adequate contextualisation of modern debates within a long historical process. Contributors are: Hynek Bartoš, Sean Coughlin, Elizabeth Craik, Brooke Holmes, Helen King, Giouli Korobili, David Leith, Vivian Nutton, Julius Rocca, William Michael Short, P. N. Singer, Konstantinos Stefou, Chiara Thumiger, Laurence Totelin, Claire Trenery, John Wee, Francis Zimmermann.