Galen's Treatise Περὶ Ἀλυπίας (de Indolentia) in Context - A Tale of Resilience

This volume offers a multi-disciplinary approach to the "new" Galen text De indolentia, discovered in 2005. It addresses Galen's literary production, his medical and philosophical contribution, the Antonine plague, the reign of Commodus, and finally the reception of the text.

About the author

Caroline Petit, Ph.D. (2004), Université Paris-Sorbonne, is Assistant Professor of Classics and the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick. She has published extensively on Galen, the Galenic corpus, and their transmission and reception.

Product details

• Assisted by: Caroline Petit (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.01.2019
• EAN: 9789004383289
• ISBN: 978-90-04-38328-9
• No. of pages: 302
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 241 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 557 g
• Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General