Galen's treatise Peri alypias (De indolentia) in context : : a tale of resilience / / edited by Caroline Petit.

• TeilnehmendeR: Petit, Caroline, 1976-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2019; 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine 52.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: "This collective volume arises from a Wellcome-funded conference held at the University of Warwick in 2014"--ECIP data view.

This collective volume arises from a Wellcome-funded conference held at the University of Warwick in 2014 about the “new” Galen discovered in 2005 in a Greek manuscript, De indolentia . In the wake of the latest English translation published by Vivian Nutton in 2013, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to the new text, discussing in turn issues around Galen’s literary production, his medical and philosophical contribution to the theme of avoiding distress (ἀλυπία), controversial topics in Roman history such as the Antonine plague and the reign of Commodus, and finally the reception of the text in the Islamic world. Gathering eleven contributions by recognised specialists of Galen, Greek literature and Roman history, it revisits the new text extensively.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- A Long Lost Text: Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας / Caroline Petit -- Note on MS Vlatadon 14: a Summary of the Main Findings and Problems / P. N. Singer -- Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and Galen’s Œuvre -- Death, Posterity and the Vulnerable Self: Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας in the Context of His Late Writings / Caroline Petit -- Galen and the Language of Old Comedy: Glimpses of a Lost Treatise at Ind. 23b–28 / Amy Coker -- New Light and Old Texts: Galen on His Own Books / P. N. Singer -- Galen’s Distress: Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and the Philosophical Tradition -- Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας as Philosophical Therapy: How Coherent is It? / Christopher Gill -- Galen and the Sceptics (and the Epicureans) on the Unavoidability of Distress / R. J. Hankinson -- A New Distress: Galen’s Ethics in Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and Beyond / P. N. Singer -- Wisdom and Emotion: Galen’s Philosophical Position in Avoiding Distress / Teun Tieleman -- Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and the History of the Roman Empire -- Galen and the Plague / Rebecca Flemming -- Galen and the Last Days of Commodus / Matthew Nicholls -- The Lost Readership of Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας -- Arabic Περὶ Ἀλυπίας: Did al-Kindî and Râzî Read Galen? / Antoine Pietrobelli -- Back Matter -- Index Locorum -- General Index.