Galen's Treatise Peri Alypias (De Indolentia) in Context: A Tale of Resilience

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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, 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. Contents Introduction A Long Lost Text: Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας Chapter 1 Note on MS Vlatadon 14: a Summary of the Main Findings and Problems Part 1 Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and Galen’s OEuvre Chapter 2 Death, Posterity and the Vulnerable Self: Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας in the Context of His Late Writings Chapter 3 Galen and the Language of Old Comedy: Glimpses of a Lost Treatise at Ind. 23b–28 Chapter 4 New Light and Old Texts: Galen on His Own Books Part 2 Galen’s Distress: Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and the Philosophical Tradition Chapter 5 Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας as Philosophical Therapy: How Coherent is It? Chapter 6 Galen and the Sceptics (and the Epicureans) on the Unavoidability of Distress Chapter 7 A New Distress: Galen’s Ethics in Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and Beyond Chapter 8 Wisdom and Emotion: Galen’s Philosophical Position in Avoiding Distress Part 3 Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and the History of the Roman Empire Chapter 9 Galen and the Plague Chapter 10 Galen and the Last Days of Commodus Epilogue The Lost Readership of Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας Chapter 11 Arabic Περὶ Ἀλυπίας: Did al-Kindî and Râzî Read Galen? Index Locorum General Index 293_Petit_14-Index Locorum.pdf _GoBack