’Greek’ and ’Roman’ in Latin Medical Texts: Studies in Cultural Change and Exchange in Ancient Medicine

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Contents Preface Introduction Part 1 The Physician Chapter 1 Greek and Roman Patients under Galen’s Gaze: A Doctor at the Crossroads of Two Cultures Chapter 2 “Memorial” Strategies of Court Physicians in the Imperial Period Chapter 3 The Identity, Legal Status and Origin of the Roman Army’s Medical Staff in the Imperial Age Part 2 Medical Practice and Theory Chapter 4 Pneumatism in Seneca: An Example of Interaction between Physics and Medicine Chapter 5 References to Medical Authors in Non-Medical Latin Literature Chapter 6 At the Crossroads of Greek and Roman Medicine: The Contribution of Latin Papyri 1. Medical Texts; 2. Iatromagical Papyri Part 3 Anatomy and Pathology Chapter 7 Calcidius, Witness to Greek Medical Theories: Eye Anatomy and Pathology Chapter 8 Physical Pain in Celsus’ On Medicine Part 4 Pharmacology and Magic Chapter 9 The Pharmacological Treatise Περὶ εὐφορβίου of Juba II, King of Mauretania Chapter 10 “As a Matter of Fact, This is Not Difficult to Understand!”: The Addresses to the Reader in Greek and Latin Pharmacological Poetry Chapter 11 Magical Formulas in Pliny’s Natural History: Origins, Sources, Parallels Chapter 12 On Analgesic and Narcotic Plants: Pliny and His Greek Sources, the History of a Complex Graft Chapter 13 Collyrium Names Attested on Stone Tablets: The Example of the Helvetian Corpus Part 5 Language and Establishment of the Text Chapter 14 The Meaning and Etymology of the Adjective Apiosus Chapter 15 The Latin and Greek Tradition of the Corpus Oribasianum Chapter 16 Galen of Pergamum: A Witness of Scribonius Largus’ OEuvre Chapter 17 Greek Medicine in Scribonius Largus’ Compositiones Chapter 18 The Ancient Latin Commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms on the Threshold of the Twelfth Century Chapter 19 On Terminological Variation in the Late Latin Translation of the Hippocratic Aphorisms Chapter 20 From Cassius Felix to Tereoperica: New Considerations on Indirect Tradition Chapter 21 The Author of Book 10 of the Mulomedicina Chironis and Its Greek and Latin Sources Index Locorum Inscriptions Papyri and Ostraca Manuscripts General Index