Galen and the World of Knowledge

Christopher Gill is Professor of Ancient Thought at the University of Exeter. His books include Personality in Greek Epic, Tragedy, and Philosophy: The Self in Dialogue (1996), which was awarded the Runciman prize in 1997; The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought (2006); and a number of edited volumes of essays. He is currently working on Naturalistic Psychology in Galen and Stoicism (2010). Tim Whitmarsh is E. P. Warren Praelector in Classics at Corpus Christi and Lecturer in Greek Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. He has published widely on the Greek literature of the Roman period, including Greek Literature and the Roman Empire: The Politics of Imitation (2001) and The Second Sophistic (2005). He also edited Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire (with Jason Konig, 2007) and The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel (2008). John Wilkins is Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Exeter. Recent publications include The Boastful Chef (2000); Athenaeus and His World (edited with D. Braund, 2000); Food in the Ancient World (with Shaun Hill, 2006); and a number of articles and essays on food and medicine. He has also led a Wellcome Research Project on Galen's Simple Medicines.

• Introduction Christopher Gill, Tim Whitmarsh and John Wilkins; 1. Galen's library Vivian Nutton; 2. Conventions of prefatory self-presentation in Galen's On the Order of My Own Books Jason König; 3. Demiurge and emperor in Galen's world of knowledge Rebecca Flemming; 4. Shock and awe: the performance dimension of Galen's anatomy demonstrations Maud Gleason; 5. Galen's un-Hippocratic case-histories G. E. R. Lloyd; 6. Staging the past, staging oneself: Galen on Hellenistic exegetical traditions Heinrich von Staden; 7. Galen and Hippocratic medicine: language and practice Daniela Manetti; 8. Galen's Bios and Methodos: from ways of life to paths of knowledge Véronique Boudon-Millot; 9. Does Galen have a medical programme for intellectuals and the faculties of the intellect? Jacques Jouanna; 10. Galen on the limitations of knowledge R. J. Hankinson; 11. Galen and Middle Platonism Riccardo Chiaradonna; 12. 'Aristotle! What a thing for you to say!' Galen's engagement with Aristotle and Aristotelians Philip van der Eijk; 13. Galen and the Stoics, or: the art of not naming Teun Tieleman.

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