Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Note on conventions
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Galen's library
- 2 Conventions of prefatory self-presentation in Galen's On the Order of My Own Books
- 3 Demiurge and Emperor in Galen's world of knowledge
- 4 Shock and awe: the performance dimension of Galen's anatomy demonstrations
- 5 Galen's un-Hippocratic case-histories
- 6 Staging the past, staging oneself: Galen on Hellenistic exegetical traditions
- 7 Galen and Hippocratic medicine: language and practice
- 8 Galen's Bios and Methodos: from ways of life to path of knowledge
- 9 Does Galen have a medical programme for intellectuals and the faculties of the intellect?
- 10 Galen on the limitations of knowledge
- 11 Galen and Middle Platonism
- 12 ‘Aristotle! What a thing for you to say!’ Galen's engagement with Aristotle and Aristotelians
- 13 Galen and the Stoics, or: the art of not naming
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Note on conventions
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Galen's library
- 2 Conventions of prefatory self-presentation in Galen's On the Order of My Own Books
- 3 Demiurge and Emperor in Galen's world of knowledge
- 4 Shock and awe: the performance dimension of Galen's anatomy demonstrations
- 5 Galen's un-Hippocratic case-histories
- 6 Staging the past, staging oneself: Galen on Hellenistic exegetical traditions
- 7 Galen and Hippocratic medicine: language and practice
- 8 Galen's Bios and Methodos: from ways of life to path of knowledge
- 9 Does Galen have a medical programme for intellectuals and the faculties of the intellect?
- 10 Galen on the limitations of knowledge
- 11 Galen and Middle Platonism
- 12 ‘Aristotle! What a thing for you to say!’ Galen's engagement with Aristotle and Aristotelians
- 13 Galen and the Stoics, or: the art of not naming
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Galen and the World of Knowledge , pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009