'Greek' and 'Roman' in Latin medical texts : : studies in cultural change and exchange in ancient medicine /

'Greek' and 'Roman' in Latin medical texts : : studies in cultural change and exchange in ancient medicine / / edited by Brigitte Maire.

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Latin medical texts transmit medical theories and practices that originated mainly in Greece. This interaction took place through juxtaposition, assimilation and transformation of ideas. 'Greek' and 'Roman' in Latin Medical Texts studies the ways in which this cultural interactio...

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Superior document:Studies in Ancient Medicine, Volume 42
TeilnehmendeR:
Maire, Brigitte,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Studies in ancient medicine ; Volume 42.
Physical Description:1 online resource (461 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction / Brigitte Maire
  • 1 Greek and Roman Patients under Galen’s Gaze: A Doctor at the Crossroads of Two Cultures / Véronique Boudon-Millot
  • 2 “Memorial” Strategies of Court Physicians in the Imperial Period / Sébastien Barbara
  • 3 The Identity, Legal Status and Origin of the Roman Army’s Medical Staff in the Imperial Age / Pascal Bader
  • 4 Pneumatism in Seneca: An Example of Interaction between Physics and Medicine / Frédéric Le Blay
  • 5 References to Medical Authors in Non-Medical Latin Literature / Innocenzo Mazzini
  • 6 At the Crossroads of Greek and Roman Medicine: The Contribution of Latin Papyri 1. Medical Texts; 2. Iatromagical Papyri / Marie-Hélène Marganne and Magali de Haro Sanchez
  • 7 Calcidius, Witness to Greek Medical Theories: Eye Anatomy and Pathology / Béatrice Bakhouche
  • 8 Physical Pain in Celsus’ On Medicine / Aurélien Gautherie
  • 9 The Pharmacological Treatise Περὶ εὐφορβίου of Juba II, King of Mauretania / Antoine Pietrobelli
  • 10 “As a Matter of Fact, This is Not Difficult to Understand!”: The Addresses to the Reader in Greek and Latin Pharmacological Poetry / Svetlana Hautala
  • 11 Magical Formulas in Pliny’s Natural History: Origins, Sources, Parallels / Patricia Gaillard-Seux
  • 12 On Analgesic and Narcotic Plants: Pliny and His Greek Sources, the History of a Complex Graft / Valérie Bonet
  • 13 Collyrium Names Attested on Stone Tablets: The Example of the Helvetian Corpus / Muriel Pardon-Labonnelie
  • 14 The Meaning and Etymology of the Adjective Apiosus / Vincenzo Ortoleva
  • 15 The Latin and Greek Tradition of the Corpus Oribasianum / Serena Buzzi and Federico Messina
  • 16 Galen of Pergamum: A Witness of Scribonius Largus’ Œuvre / Alessia Guardasole
  • 17 Greek Medicine in Scribonius Largus’ Compositiones / Sergio Sconocchia
  • 18 The Ancient Latin Commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms on the Threshold of the Twelfth Century / Manuel E. Vázquez Buján
  • 19 On Terminological Variation in the Late Latin Translation of the Hippocratic Aphorisms / Gerd V.M. Haverling
  • 20 From Cassius Felix to Tereoperica: New Considerations on Indirect Tradition / Laura López Figueroa
  • 21 The Author of Book 10 of the Mulomedicina Chironis and Its Greek and Latin Sources / Valérie Gitton Ripoll
  • Index Locorum
  • Inscriptions
  • Papyrus and Ostraca
  • Manuscripts
  • General Index.

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