Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Note on conventions
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Galen's library
- 2 Conventions of prefatory self-presentation in Galen's On the Order of My Own Books
- 3 Demiurge and Emperor in Galen's world of knowledge
- 4 Shock and awe: the performance dimension of Galen's anatomy demonstrations
- 5 Galen's un-Hippocratic case-histories
- 6 Staging the past, staging oneself: Galen on Hellenistic exegetical traditions
- 7 Galen and Hippocratic medicine: language and practice
- 8 Galen's Bios and Methodos: from ways of life to path of knowledge
- 9 Does Galen have a medical programme for intellectuals and the faculties of the intellect?
- 10 Galen on the limitations of knowledge
- 11 Galen and Middle Platonism
- 12 ‘Aristotle! What a thing for you to say!’ Galen's engagement with Aristotle and Aristotelians
- 13 Galen and the Stoics, or: the art of not naming
- Bibliography
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Note on conventions
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Galen's library
- 2 Conventions of prefatory self-presentation in Galen's On the Order of My Own Books
- 3 Demiurge and Emperor in Galen's world of knowledge
- 4 Shock and awe: the performance dimension of Galen's anatomy demonstrations
- 5 Galen's un-Hippocratic case-histories
- 6 Staging the past, staging oneself: Galen on Hellenistic exegetical traditions
- 7 Galen and Hippocratic medicine: language and practice
- 8 Galen's Bios and Methodos: from ways of life to path of knowledge
- 9 Does Galen have a medical programme for intellectuals and the faculties of the intellect?
- 10 Galen on the limitations of knowledge
- 11 Galen and Middle Platonism
- 12 ‘Aristotle! What a thing for you to say!’ Galen's engagement with Aristotle and Aristotelians
- 13 Galen and the Stoics, or: the art of not naming
- Bibliography
- 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.
We would like to acknowledge the support for the funding of the conference provided by the British Academy, the Classical Association, the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies and the University of Exeter. We wish to thank most warmly all the contributors to the volume for their illuminating essays, and also the other participants at the conference whose comments helped to inform the final version of the papers. We are grateful to Michael Sharp, Classics Editor for Cambridge University Press, and the general editors of the series in which the volume appears, for their support and guidance.
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- Galen and the World of Knowledge , pp. xvii - xviiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009