Galen's treatise Peri alypias (De indolentia) in context
a tale of resilience
Bände/Inhalt:
- A Long Lost Text: Galen's Περὶ Ἀλυπίας / Caroline Petit - 1. Note on MS Vlatadon 14: a summary of the main findings and problems / P. N. Singer - Part 1. Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and Galen's Œuvre - 2. Death, posterity and the vulnerable self: Galen's Περὶ Ἀλυπίας in the context of his late writings / Caroline Petit - 3. Galen and the language of old comedy: glimpses of a lost treatise at Ind. 23b-28 / Amy Coker - 4. New light and old texts: Galen on his own books / P. N. Singer - Part 2. Galen's Distress: Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and the Philosophical Tradition - 5. Galen's Περὶ Ἀλυπίας as philosophical therapy: how coherent is it? / Christopher Gill - 6. Galen and the Sceptics (and the Epicureans) on the unavoidability of distress / R. J. Hankinson - 7. A new distress: Galen's ethics in Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and beyond / P. N. Singer - 8. Wisdom and emotion: Galen's philosophical position in avoiding distress / Teun Tieleman - Part 3. Galen's Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and the history of the Roman Empire - 9. Galen and the plague / Rebecca Flemming - 10. Galen and the last days of Commodus / Matthew Nicholls - Epilogue: the lost readership of Galen's Περὶ Ἀλυπίας - 11. Arabic Περὶ Ἀλυπίας: did al-Kindî and Râzî read Galen? / Antoine Pietrobelli