Christopher Gill - Galen and the World of Knowledge (2009), RZYM, ebook, pdf

[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
This page intentionally left blank
GALEN AND THE WORLD OF KNOWLEDGE
Galen is the most important medical writer in Graeco-Roman an-
tiquity, and also extremely valuable for understanding Graeco-Roman
thought and society in the second century AD. This volume of new
essays locates him ﬁrmly in the intellectual life of his period, and thus
aims to make better sense of the medical and philosophical ‘world of
knowledge’ that he tries to create. How did Galen present himself as
a reader and an author in comparison with other intellectuals of his
day? Above all, how did he fashion himself as a medical practitioner,
and how does that self-fashioning relate to the performance culture
of second-century Rome? Did he see medicine as taking over some
of the traditional roles of philosophy? These and other questions
are freshly addressed by leading international experts on Galen and
the intellectual life of the period in a stimulating collection that
combines learning with accessibility.
), which was awarded the
Runciman prize in
;
The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman
Thought
(
); and a number of edited volumes of essays. His next
book,
Naturalistic Psychology in Galen and Stoicism
, will appear in
.
TIM WHITMARSH is E. P. Warren Praelector in Classics at Corpus
Christi College and Lecturer in Greek Language and Literature at
the University of Oxford. He has published widely on the Greek
literature of the Roman period, including
Greek Literature and the
Roman Empire: The Politics of Imitation
(
)and
The Second Sophis-
). He also edited
Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire
(with Jason Konig,
)and
The Cambridge Companion to the Greek
and Roman Novel
(
).
JOHN WILKINS is Professor of Greek Culture at the University
of Exeter. Recent publications include
The Boastful Chef
(
);
Athenaeus and His World
(edited with D. Braund,
);
Food in
); and a number of articles
and essays on food and medicine. He has also led aWellcome Research
Project on Galen’s
Simple Medicines.
CHRISTOPHER GILL is Professor of Ancient Thought at the Uni-
versity of Exeter. His books include
Personality in Greek Epic, Tragedy,
and Philosophy: The Self in Dialogue
(
tic
(
the Ancient World
(with Shaun Hill,
GREEK CULTURE IN THE ROMAN WORLD
Editors
SUSAN E. ALCOCK, Brown University
JAS ELSNER, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
SIMON GOLDHILL, University of Cambridge
The Greek culture of the Roman Empire offers a rich ﬁeld of study. Extraordin-
ary insights can be gained into processes of multicultural contact and exchange,
political and ideological conﬂict, and the creativity of a changing, polyglot empire.
During this period, many fundamental elements of Western society were being
set in place: from the rise of Christianity, to an inﬂuential system of education,
to long-lived artistic canons. This series is the ﬁrst to focus on the response of
Greek culture to its Roman imperial setting as a signiﬁcant phenomenon in its
own right. To this end, it will publish original and innovative research in the art,
archaeology, epigraphy, history, philosophy, religion, and literature of the empire,
with an emphasis on Greek material.
Titles in series:
Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire
Jason Konig
Describing Greece: Landscape and Literature in the
Periegesis
of Pausanias
William Hutton
Religious Identity in Late Antiquity: Greeks, Jews and Christians in Antioch
Isabella Sandwell
Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek Identity
and the Reception of the Classical Tradition
Anthony Kaldellis
The Making of Roman India
Grant Parker
Philostratus
Edited by Ewen Bowie and Ja
´
sElsner
The Politics of Muniﬁcence in the Roman Empire:
Citizens, Elites and Benefactors in Asia Minor
Arjan Zuiderhoek
Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean:
Architecture, Cult, and Community
Ann Marie Yasin
Galen and the World of Knowledge
Christopher Gill, Tim Whitmarsh and John Wilkins
GALEN AND THE WORLD
OF KNOWLEDGE
EDITED BY
CHRISTOPHER GILL
TIM WHITMARSH
JOHN WILKINS
[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

Podobne