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Sophia Xenophontos
Sophia Xenophontos
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Medicine and Practical Ethics in Galen , pp. 289 - 300
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General Index

All titles are by Galen unless otherwise noted.

AA see Anatomical Procedures
accountability 35–36
Achilles, as model of good condition 117
acquired states 41, 108
addressees 22, 54–55
Affections and Errors of the Soul 86–87, 126, 130–132, 135, 139–140, 142–143, 151, 155–159, 170–171
Avoiding Distress 73, 75–82, 85, 91, 92–93
Boethus 227–230
Epigenes (Exercise with the Small Ball) 118, 129–130n16
Epigenes (Prognosis) 77, 197–198, 217, 226–228, 229
Eugenianus (Therapeutic Method) 88–89, 210
Gorgias (Antecedent Causes) 55
Hiero (Therapeutic Method) 205
Patrophilus (The Composition of the Art of Medicine) 55
Platonist philosophers (The Capacities of the Soul Depend on the Mixtures of the Body) 39
Thrasybulus (Thrasybulus) 119
Adrian of Tyre 229
Adv. Jul. see Against Julian
Aelius Aristides 45n43
Oration of Rome 3–4n.13
aesthetics, moral 146–154
aetiology, and moral passions 8–9n29, 150, 153, 167–171, 222
Aff. Pecc. Dig. see Affections and Errors of the Soul
Affected Places (Loc. Aff.) 8–9n29, 233
on lack of education 60
Affections and Errors of the Soul (Aff. Pecc. Dig.) 2, 34, 42n37, 107, 124–125, 171–173, 201
and animal imagery 101
and apatheia 90
doxosophia 199
fallacies 201–202
Galen’s father 88, 149
genre and level of addressee 130–132
insatiability and grief 167–171
moral emulation 160–162
moral errors 29
moral supervisor, figure of 137–141
physis 86–87
politics/free speech 141–146
proem 125–130
and reproach 53
self-knowledge and self-love 132–137
shame 155–156
situational ethics/dietetics 156–162
affections (pathē) 8–9n29, 131, 164
Against Favorinus’s Attack on Socrates 4n15
Against Julian (Adv. Jul.) 58–59, 147
Agamemnon 147
Agreement 4n15
Ajax 47, 147
akouein 106, 113–114
Alcinous, Manual of Platonic Doctrine (Didaskalikos) 219
Alcmaeon of Croton 99n30
Alexander of Aphrodisias 116n120
Alexander of Damascus 228–230, 235, 238
Alexander, L. C. A. 149n71, 151n77
Alim. Fac. see Capacities of Foodstuffs, The
allegories 29, 104, 207, 237
allopathy 70
amazement 74, 93, 202, 216
ambiguity 24, 55–56
ambition, Galen’s 111
Anacharsis 108
analogy 184, 233, 239
Affections and Errors of the Soul 158
body and soul 8–9n29
Plato 177–178, 183
Prognosis 184, 213, 224
Recognising the Best Physician 176, 179–184, 207
Therapeutic Method 207
Anatomical Procedures (AA) 128, 227
anatomy 191
Anaxagoras 63n25, 102n45
anecdotes 82–83
angels 21–22
anger 55
Affections and Errors of the Soul 146–156
Character Traits 138–139
Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato 99
animals
dissection of 227–230
dogs 158
fatted cattle 31
hogs/pigs 21–22, 27, 114
rational/irrational 60, 98–102, 114, 154, 155
Annaeus Serenus 78
Annas, Julia 23
Anonymous of Paris 6
Antecedent Causes (CP), sophisms 54–55
antidotes 74
On Antidotes 71–72n14
Antigenes 216–218
Antisthenes 105–106
Antonine plague 73
Antonius the Epicurean, Control of One’s Own Particular Affections 126–128
apatheia 90–91, 155
aphorisms, Hippocratic 41n34, 55, 115
Apollo 113
Apology see Plato, Apology
Arabic translations 69n2, 244
Recognising the Best Physician 174
Archigenes 25, 56, 129–130n16
Archilochus 112
Aretaeus of Cappadocia 6, 6–7n19, 48
Aristarchus 80
Aristides, Aelius 45n43
Aristippus of Cyrene 82, 105
aristocrats 37, 91
Aristotle 128, 211, 227
History of Animals 99n26
Nicomachean Ethics 31, 75, 159
Poetics 220
Politics 179
prohairesis 185
Protreptic 97–98, 122–123
Rhetoric 219
and shame 47
Arrian 78
Art of Medicine, The (Ars Med.) 41
art (technē) 52, 218
arts, in Exhortation 97–111, 116
Asclepiades of Bithynia 7, 63n26
Asclepiadian doctors 207, 213–214
Asmis, Elizabeth 92
assimilation 59, 91, 101, 102–103, 104n56, 155
astronomy 36n13
ataraxia 90
Athenaeus of Attalia 7, 61–62
athletes 119–121
athletic activity 110–116
compared to hogs 27
Atticus 80
Aurelius, Marcus 87, 120, 174n1, 231–232
autobibliographical inventories 2, 5
autobiographical element 119–120, 237
Avoiding Distress 55
Prognosis 194
Recognising the Best Physician 190–191, 193
aversion therapy 149
Avoiding Distress (Ind.) 2, 3n12, 55, 69–94
and Aristippus 105
and fate 103
and moral authority 73–78
philosophical refutation through personal experience 90–92
revived reality of the loss 78–82
traditional instruction and Galen’s ethics 82–89
babbling 64–65
Barton, T. 223
beauty 108, 116
bees 99n30, 99
Benedict, Ruth 46
Berger, Peter 12, 231
Best Doctor is Also a Philosopher, The (Opt. Med.) 1, 96–97, 114, 233
Best Men Profit from Their Enemies, The 4n15
Best Method of Teaching, The (Opt. Doct.) 87n68
Best Sect, The (Opt. Sect.) 65–66
bibliographical inventories, and Prognosis 196–197
bipartition 155n86
blame 53–54
in Affections and Errors of the Soul 173
in Exhortation 103
blending
and virtue 41n33 see also mixtures
Bloodletting, Against the Erasistrateans at Rome (Ven. Sect. Er. Rom.) 144
body and soul 8–9n29, 34
Affections and Errors of the Soul 146–154
Exhortation 116, 118
in Recognising the Best Physician 191
Boethus, Flavius 227–230
Bon. Hab. see Good Condition
Bon. Mal. Suc. see Good Humour and Bad Humour
boulēsis (volition) 132 see also prohairesis (reasoned choice/volition)
Bourdieu, Pierre 12, 134
brain see mental illness/disturbance
brigands analogy 224
bull of Phalaris 90
Burke, Kenneth 147
Caelius Aurelianus 6–7n19, 7n21, 151n78
Cairns, D. L. 46n47
Callicles (in Gorgias (Plato)) 178, 214
Callinus 80
CAM see Composition of the Art of Medicine, Addressed to Patrophilus, The
Campania 79, 81
Capacities of Foodstuffs, The (Alim. Fac.) 92
Capacities of Simple Drugs, The (SMT) 47–48
Capacities of the Soul Depend on the Mixtures of the Body, The (QAM) 33–43, 96–97, 160–161
cleanser of souls 52
Capacity of Cleansing Drugs, The (Purg. Med. Fac.), on vice 53
care of the self 76, 144
case histories 233–234
Affections and Errors of the Soul 150, 162–163
Prognosis 194
Recognising the Best Physician 182–183, 186–187
pregnant woman 191–192
Sextus 230
Therapeutic Method, young man with fever 230–231
Cassius Dio 95, 120
cattle, fatted 31
Causes of Symptoms (Caus. Symp.) 129–130n16
Cebes, Tabula 103
Celsus 6, 70n5, 151n78
character 36
and wine 40–41
Character Traits (De Mor.) 2, 21–23, 34, 130–131
in Affections and Errors of the Soul 156
anger 138–139
and animal imagery 101, 114
blame 54
and Hermes 105
physis 86
role-models 76
slaves of Perennis 108
charlatans 177, 182, 202, 207
cheerfulness 75
Affections and Errors of the Soul 170–171
Christians/Christianity 71n12, 149–150n72
Chrysippus 63–65, 74, 87n70, 108n80, 149, 211
on animals and reason 98–99
malignancy 219–220
On Passions 72n17
Cicero 220
Consolation 72n18
On Duties 52
On Ends 21–22n1
cinnamon 74
class fraction 133–135, 139, 190
Claudius Severus 229n96
Cleanthes, On Excellence of Natural Endowment 87n70
Clement of Alexandria 137n37
Cleon 186
cognition 74
comedy 210n52
old 80–81
Commentary on Hippocrates’s ‘Epidemics VI’ (Hipp. Epid. VI) 45
Commentary on Hippocrates’s ‘Nature of Man’ (HNH) 59–60
Commodus 70, 76, 85, 87, 119–121, 125
and Exhortation to the Study of Medicine 119–121
Comp. Med. Gen see Composition of Drugs According to Kind, The
Comp. Med. Loc. see Composition of Drugs According to Places, The
competition 26, 55–56, 148, 158, 241
amongst doctors 11, 211, 238–239
Composition of the Art of Medicine, Addressed to Patrophilus, The (CAM) 55
Composition of Drugs According to Kind, The (Comp. Med. Gen.) 92
Composition of Drugs According to Places, The (Comp. Med. Loc.) 28–29, 92
compulsion 114
Cons. see On Habits
Consequences of Each Chosen Purpose in Life, The 4n15
Consolation 4n15
consolation (genre) 72
constitution 37, 43, 116
Construction of the Embryo 161
contemplative life 240
contentiousness 10–11, 24, 25, 53, 54, 65 see also philoneikia
conversion narrative 163
cook and doctor (Prognosis) 184, 213
Corellius Rufus, Q. 228n93
correction (epanorthōsis) 127, 154n83, 173, 204
corruption 31, 39n25, 54, 160, 243
and flattery 191
and physicians 84, 175–176, 208
CP see Antecedent Causes
craft (τέχναι), medicine as 52, 174n1, 177–178
Crete episode 150
On Crises (Cris.) 197
Critical Days (Di. Dec.) 197
critical thinking 165
Crusius, O. 116n118
Cur. Rat. Ven. Sect. see Treatment by Bloodletting
curiosity 60–61
Cynic philosophy 105–106
Cyrenaic tradition 21–22n1, 84–85
Damiani, V. 104n57
Daoi 63
De Mor. see Character Traits
death, honourable 47–48
decision-making 21–22, 165
Affections and Errors of the Soul 172
Avoiding Distress 91
and shame 47
declamation 7–8
deformities, physical 116
Demetrius of Alexander 229
Democritus 77
demonstration, and Thrasybulus 119
Descartes, René 30n21
desocialisation 37
Di. Dec. see Critical Days
Diagnosis by the Pulse (Dig. Puls.) 209
specialisation 161
dialectic 185n27, 211
dialogue
Affections and Errors of the Soul 126–127
On Fortune (Favorinus) 103
Platonic 131–132, 144, 177–178
in Plutarch 136, 152–153
in Prognosis 195, 224–226
The Symposium or the Lapiths (Lucian) 206–207
diatribes 84
didacticism 225
dietetics 38–39, 157
in Affections and Errors of the Soul 156–162
and Rufus of Ephesus 234
Different Kinds of Fever, The (Diff. Feb.) 49–50
Different Kinds of Pulse, The (Diff. Puls.) 24
Dig. Puls. see Diagnosis by the Pulse (Dig. Puls.)
Digest 35n8
digestion 167–168
digressions 5
Affections and Errors of the Soul 130
Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato 64
Prognosis 196
Dio of Prusa, Orations 57, 103, 193, 213, 243
Diocles 95–96n4
Diodotus 186
Diogenes 105, 109
Diogenes of Babylon 52, 71n12
Diomedes 147
Dionysius of Syracuse, in Life of Dion (Plutarch) 144
Dioscorides 54
direct speech, Prognosis 195, 217, 225
Discourse with Bacchides and Cyrus in the Villa of Menarchus, The 3n12
disease, elephas 47–48
disfigurement 6–7n19, 48, 148
disgrace 44, 47–48, 48n58, 108, 181
distancing 91, 101
distress see Avoiding Distress; lypē
Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato (PHP) 63–66
on affections 125n4
and animal imagery 101
on animals and reason 99
helmsmen/physician analogy 180
on morals and political action 189
on specialisation 161
training and nature 86
dogs, analogy 158
Donini, P. L. 35n11
doxosophia 198–199
drinking/drunkenness 26, 36–38, 41–42, 159, 207, 238 see also moderation; wine
drugs, lost in the fire 81
Duff, T. 23n4
eating/drinking 26–27
Edelstein, L, 8–9n29
education (paideia) 60, 100, 187–189, 192, 201 see also training
effeminacy 210n52
ekphrasis 103
Elements According to Hippocrates, The (Hipp. Elem) 61–62
elenchus 58–59
elephas 47–48
elites 10, 91, 137n36, 154, 172, 220, 222, 234, 238–239
doctors 11, 57n10
emotions
and animals 99
and mental illness 42n35
in Prognosis 202–205, 214–215, 220
Stoics on 138
therapy of 42n35, 72, 93 see also amazement; pleasure
Empedocles 95–96n4
Empiricism 95
emulation 86, 107, 221, 237
moral, in Affections and Errors of the Soul 159, 162–167
environment 35
social 49
envy (φθόνος) 25, 60, 65, 138
On My Own Books 217
Prognosis 204, 212–213, 217–221, 227, 231
Epictetus
Discourses 78, 121–122
on slaves 152
Manual 78
Epicurianism 21–22n1
On the Epicureans 4n15
Epicurus 78
on distress 85
Letter to Herodotus 34n2
Epigenes 197–198
in Exercise with the Small Ball 118, 129–130n16
in Prognosis 77, 197–198, 217, 226–228, 229
Erasistratus 34n2
Eratosthenes of Cyrene 71n12
eris (despicable dispute) 24, 208, 231
errors, moral 29, 202–203, 205, 209, 232, 235
errors (amartēma, -ta), in Affections and Errors of the Soul 125, 202
On Errors (Book 2, Affections and Error of the Soul) 125n4, 129–130, 138n39, 201–204
class fraction 134n29
judgment 203
manipulators 204
moral knowledge 135n32
sophisms 202
truth 136–137
ethical case histories 124, 150–152
ethical philosophy 72
ethnic identity 108, 150, 192
ēthos (habit) (moral character) 5, 159–160, 216–218
Eudemus 6n18, 77, 215–226
Eugenianus 88–89, 210
eugenics 106
Eupolis 25
Euripides
and eris 24–25
Orestes 208n46
Phoenician Women 106
excellence
moral/ethical 21–22n1, 22, 25, 232–233
Affections and Errors of the Soul 134, 142, 159
Capacities of the Soul 42
Prognosis 217–218, 222, 227
exemplars 22, 59, 70n7, 107, 163, 228, 235
Exercise with the Small Ball, The (Parv. Pil.) 118, 168–169
Epigenes 197
philanthropy 174–175n2
Exhortation to the Study of the Arts 96
Exhortation to the Study of Medicine (Protr.) 81, 95–97, 121–123
arts vs. fate 97–111
as attack on Commodus 119–121
dangers of athletics 111–116
ethics in 116–119
physis 86
On Fallacies Due to Language 201n32
fallacy/fallacious arguments 61–63, 201
false modesty (δυσωπία) 25
fate (tychē)/Fate 81–82
in Exhortation 97–111
and Exhortation 102–104
father (Galen’s) 85–89, 142, 149, 163–167
Favorinus, On Fortune 103
fear 214
fire, Palatine Hill (Rome) 71, 74, 79
flatterers/flattery 105–106, 199–200
Affections and Errors of the Soul 139
Recognising the Best Physician 176–179, 186–187, 191
Therapeutic Method 207–208
food see eating/drinking
Foucault, Michel 1–12, 23, 31, 76, 143–144
History of Sexuality 234–235
frankness of speech see parrhēsia (free speech)
free speech see parrhēsia
Fullness (Plen.) 55
Fundanus (in On the Control of Anger (Plutarch)) 152–153
Galen
autobiographical component in writings 55, 119–120
father of 85–89, 142, 149, 163–167
as a moralist 22–31
García Ballester, L. 124–125n2
garrulity 25
gender 104
Getae 63
Gill, Christopher 73, 84n58, 124–125n2
gladiators 119–120, 190
Gleason, Maud 196, 228
Good Condition (Bon. Hab.) 117
Good Humour and Bad Humour (Bon. Mal. Suc.)
blame 53
Galen’s father in 165
Gorgias
addressee in CP 55 see also Plato, Gorgias
Graeco-Roman period 10 (see also Imperial period)
aristocracy 91
society in 84
Grant, M. 10–11n34
Great Asclepieia (Ephesus) 11
greed 57n10, 141n47, 169, 173
Gregory of Nyssa, On the Love of the Poor 47–48n56
grief (lypē) 70, 72, 74–75, 162–164, 167–171
guilt 46, 58
gymnastics 112
habit (ēthos) 5, 159–160, 216–218 see also On Habits
On Habits (Cons.) 34
habitus 134, 231–232
Hadrian 149–150
Hankinson, Jim 35, 59, 164
happiness (virtue) 83
techniques for 83
Happy, Blessed Life According to Epicurus, The 4n15
Harris, William 149
hatred 53–54, 140, 148, 152, 164, 212
Hau, L. 22n3
Hebrew translations 244
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm 147
Heidegger, Martin 31
helmsman image 104
Hercules 147
compared to Commodus 120–121
as model of good condition 117
Hermes 103–105
and Commodus 120–121
Herodes, in Recognising the Best Physician 190
Herodotus (doctor) 54
Herodotus (historiographer) 65
Herophilus, Regimen 45n43
Hiero 205
Hierocles, Elements of Ethics 34n2
Hipp. Elem. see Elements According to Hippocrates, The
Hipp. Epid. VI see Commentary on Hippocrates’s ‘Epidemics VI’
Hippocrates 34n3, 34n2, 115, 119
on athletics 121
on bodily states 117
in Therapeutic Method 130
Thessalus’s criticism of 209
Hippocratic Corpus 175
Airs, Waters, Places 39n26
On Decorum 175, 200
Epidemics 39n26, 194n3
Hippocratic Oath 175
On Humours 39n26
Physician 175
Precepts 175, 226
Prognostic 232
Prorrhetic 200
HNH see Commentary on Hippocrates’s ‘Nature of Man’
hogs see pigs
Homer 47
Iliad 106, 146–147, 227
Odyssey 36
honour, love of (φιλοτιμία) 25, 55n7
humours
Affections and Errors of the Soul 168
four 36
Matters of Health 44
Ḥunayn ibn ʾIsḥāq 69n2, 96, 175n3
hypomnēmata (note-books) 77, 81
Iamblichus, Protreptic 98, 102, 122
Ibn Abī Usaybi῾a 175n3
Ibn Falaquera, Balm for Assuaging Grief 244n9
Ibn Falaquera, Shem Tov 222n80
idiōtai 201, 216
On Idleness 4n15
imitation (mimēsis) 22, 52, 122, 172, 209, 222, 223
Imperial period5–6, 10–12, 29, 36, 59–60, 70 (see also Graeco-Roman period)
impostors see charlatans
impressions (phantasiai) 85, 122, 156, 203
Ind. see Avoiding Distress
indifferents 83, 108, 169
indirect positioning 241–242
Ingenkamp, H. G. 2n8
insatiability, and grief 167–171
Interaction Between the Parties to a Dialogue, The 3n12
Interaction Between Someone Making Public Demonstrations and Their Audience, The 3n12
Iphicrates 107
irrational animals see rational/irrational animals
Isocrates, Antidosis 98
itch 62
James, William 79
jealousy see envy
Jerome, St 95–96
John Climacus, On Tranquillity of the Soul 71n12
Joseph Ibn ʿAqnīn 69n2
Jouanna, J. 37–38n22
judgment 203–204
Julian (Methodist) 58–59
Juvenal 190, 199
Kant, Immanuel 30
Kaster, Robert 46
knacks 177–178
knowledge, moral 135
König, Jason 57, 63n27, 235
krasis see mixtures
Kroniskoi 3n12
Kühn, Karl Gottlob 1
labour, love of (φιλοπονία) 25, 44, 55n7
language 56, 80, 110, 138, 233, 244
laughable gestures, Odyssey 37
laughter
derisive 134
Affections and Errors of the Soul 150
Antecedent Causes 55
On the Control of Anger (Plutarch) 152
Prognosis 195–196
Recognising the Best Physician 186–187
learning 209
and animals 100n32
ethics 74
medicine 5, 44, 49
and philosophy 165n104 see also paideia
lectures 84n55, 176
Lib. Prop. see On My Own Books
liberty 231–232
libraries, Imperial 70
Lloyd, G. E. R. 37n19
Loc. Aff. see Affected Places
logiatros 232
Lucian 187–188, 199–200
Charon 117n125
Fisherman 143n50
on salutatio 190
The Symposium or the Lapiths 206–207
Luckmann, Thomas 12, 231
Lycurgus 112
lypē 70, 72, 74–75
Affections and Errors of the Soul 162–164, 167–171
To Make the Punishment Fit the Crime 4n15
magnanimity 74–75
Making of Wills, The 4n15
malice (kakoētheia), in Prognosis 195, 215–221, 222, 224, 226, 231
malignant/malevolent positioning 242
Manilius, Astronomicon 36n13
manipulators 201–205
manners, social 140–141
Marinus 128
Martianus 218–221
Mattern, Susan 151–152, 233
Matters of Health (San. Tu.) 43–49, 118–119, 234, 243
dietetics 160
excessive wine consumption 37
politics in 188
remembering 89
specialisation 161
Maximus of Tyre 8–9n29
Oration 78
meddlesomeness (πολυπραγμοσύνη) 25
Medea 125n4
medical impostors, slave 182
medicine 10–11, 174–176
melancholia 35n9
Menander 63
Menodotus of Nicomedia 95–96n4
mental illness/disturbance 138n39, 148, 153–154
and allopathy 70
and emotions 42n35
Methodists 183
Julian 58–59
Thessalus 57–58, 208–212
metriopatheia 90
Milo of Croton 117–118
mixtures (krasis), bodily 33, 41, 160–161
MM see Therapeutic Method
On Mixtures (Temp.) 34
MMG see Therapeutics to Glaucon
Mnesitheus 37–38n22
moderation 24, 36–41
Affections and Errors of the Soul 131, 155–156, 158–159, 167–171
and Eudemus 221
Modesty 4n15
moral advisors see moral supervisors
moral breakdown 31
moral character see ēthos
moral errors 29, 202–203, 205, 209, 232, 235
moral habitus 134
moral medicine 51–66, 189, 239, 240–243
moral passions 8, 54, 124, 128, 135, 137–139, 209
anger 55, 146–156
envy 25, 60, 65, 138, 204, 217–221
fear 214
greed 57n10, 141n47, 169, 173
grief 70, 72, 74–75, 162–164, 167–171
hatred 140
malice (kakoētheia) 195–197, 215–221, 222, 224, 226, 231
rage 62n24, 138, 148, 152 see also pleasure
moral philosophy 2, 3–4, 7–8, 42, 49
in Recognising the Best Physician 189, 193 see also Affections and Errors of the Soul
moral positioning 241
moral supervisor figure, Affections and Errors of the Soul 137–141, 144–145, 163
moral topics 21–31
moralism, Galen’s 22–31
morality, definition, Foucault 234–235
Moss, J. 178, 178n11
Mot. Dub. see On Problematical Movements
mother (Galen’s) 88, 164–165
Musonius Rufus, G. 6, 91
My Own Books (Lib. Prop.) 95, 115
On My Own Books (Lib. Prop.) 2, 209, 217, 221, 227
My Own Opinions (Prop. Plac.) 132, 189
Mytilene debate 186
Natural Faculties (Nat. Fac.) 62, 63
naturalistic psychology 35–36
Nature 30
nature (physis) 86–87, 100–101, 222–223
Newmyer, Stephen 99
Nietzsche, Friedrich 147
nostalgia 176
note-books (hypomnēmata) 77, 81
Nutton, Vivian 10–11n34, 37, 57n10, 187–188, 196n11, 196n9, 232
Opt. Doct. see Best Method of Teaching, The
Opt. Med. see Best Doctor is Also a Philosopher, The
Opt. Med. Cogn. see Recognising the Best Physician
Opt. Sect. see Best Sect, The
Ord. Lib. Prop. see Order of My Own Books, The
Order of My Own Books, The (Ord. Lib. Prop.) 209
Orwell, George 194
Other 76
Outline of Empiricism (Subf. Emp.) 95–96n4
overpopulation, Rome 179
Paccius 77–78
paideia 4n14, 60, 100, 187–189, 192, 201, 237
enkyklios 110
Palatine Hill (Rome) fire 71, 74, 79
Panaetius 77
paraenesis 98n18
parents (Galen’s) see father; mother
parrhēsia (free speech/frankness of speech) 141–146, 212
Parv. Pil. see Exercise with the Small Ball, The
pathē 8–9n29, 131, 164
Patroclus 147
patrons 11, 177, 199, 206
Patrophilus, in CAM 55
Peducaeus 80
Pelling, C. B. R. 23n4, 27n14
pepaideumenoi 4, 4n14, 201, 207, 243–244
performativity 216
Pergamum 84n56, 119–120, 190
Peripatetics 99n26, 215–216
personal experience 85, 90–92
Affections and Errors of the Soul 132
Pertinax 121
Phalaris, bull of 90
phantasiai (impressions) 203
pharmacology 28, 160
philanthropy 174–175
Philides 75, 78–79, 105
Philo of Larisa 72
Philodemos 149
On Frank Criticism 143
philoneikia (love of strife) (φιλονεικία) 66, 159, 195, 221, 226–232, 233, 235
φιλοριστία 56
philosopher (defined) 108n80
philosophical therapy 8–9n29, 172
philosophy
Against Favorinus’s Attack on Socrates 4n15
The Consequences of Each Chosen Purpose in Life 4n15
Pleasure and Pain 4n15
and poetry 113–114
The Purpose of Life According to Philosophy 4n15
Philostratus 121
Lives of the Sophists 4n14, 51
PHP see Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato
physicians
charlatans 177, 182, 202, 207
competition 11
and corruption 84
elite 11, 57n10
and ethics 160–162
medical art of 184–189
scheming 63
physis (nature) 86–87, 100–101, 222–223
pigs 21–22, 27, 114
Pindar 65
Plato 119, 128, 211, 227
animal imagery 101
Apology 47, 214
dialogues 131–132
Euthydemus 97
Gorgias 177–178, 181–182, 184, 214
Laws 39
in Life of Dion (Plutarch) 144
Phaedo 97
quote in Affections and Errors of the Soul 132–133
recollection 89n77, 183
Republic 180, 214
Timaeus 34n2, 40, 78
tripartition of the soul 34
pleasure
Affections and Errors of the Soul 125n4, 156, 164
Avoiding Distress 88
Character Traits 21–22, 105
in Dio 213
Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato 99
Exhortation 108, 120
and Galen 189–190
Gorgias (Plato) 177, 184
Manual of Platonic Doctrine (Alcinous) 165n104
Matters of Health 43n39
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle) 31
Prognosis 202
Recognising the Best Physician 177, 187
The Functions of the Parts of the Body 30
Pleasure and Pain 4n15
Pleket, Henri Willy 192
Plen. see Fullness
Pliny the Elder 228n93
Plutarch 6, 71n12, 122–123, 133, 208n46, 238–239
Against Nobility 107–108
on animals 99–100
On the Cleverness of Animals 100
On Compliance 2n8
On the Control of Anger 152–153
On Curiosity 60–61, 219
diseases 47–48n56
and eclecticism 87
On the Fortune of the Romans 103
On Friends and Flatterers 145, 177
improvement of character 57
influence on Galen 243–244
Life of Dion 144
Life of Themistocles 107
On Listening to Lectures 111
On Listening to Poetry 106, 111, 113–114
On the Love of Offspring 99
moral passions 8–9n29
Old Men in Public Affairs 193
To Orators in the Forum 3n12
Political Precepts 156, 193
On Praising Oneself Inoffensively 2n8
Precepts of Health Care 160, 161
Precepts of Marriage 109
Sayings of Kings and Commanders 107–108
on silence 136
On Stoic Self-Contradictions 219–220
On Superstition 8–9n29
Table Talk 89, 196
Tranquillity of the Soul 77–78, 82, 105
Whether the Passions of the Soul are Worse than Those of the Body 8–9n29 see also Pseudo-Plutarch
Pneumatic school of medicine 38n24
poetry 113–114, 116
polemics 2, 56–59, 84n58
Affections and Errors of the Soul 125–130
Against Julian 42
Capacities of the Soul 42
Exhortation 111–112, 116, 119–120, 121
Recognising the Best Physician 176, 182
political philosophy 180, 189
politics
in Gorgias (Plato) 177–178, 183–184
Public Pronouncements in the Presence of Pertinax 4n15
in Recognising the Best Physician 186–193
in Republic (Plato) 180
Pollux, Onomasticon 116n120
Polus 181, 184
polypragmosynē 60–61
popular philosophy see practical ethics
Posidonius of Apamea 99, 100–101
Protrepticus 105, 122
positioning theory 241–242
possessions, material see wealth (material)
practical ethics 2–3, 3n12, 5–6, 9–10, 33–50, 127–128, 236–245
and Avoiding Distress 72–73
practical philosophy 4–5
and Affections and Errors of the Soul 125
in Avoiding Distress 83–84
Praen. see Prognosis
Praes. Puls. see Prognosis by the Pulse
praise, in Exhortation 103
self- 81, 128, 191–192 see also blame
Precepts of Health Care (Plutarch) 234
On Problematical Movements (Mot. Dub.) 48n58, 70n7
prognosis, in Recognising the Best Physician 175
Prognosis by the Pulse (Praen. Puls.) 129–130n16
Prognosis (Praen.) 77, 139, 161, 194–197
conditions in Rome 179
date of composition 232n102
discourse on malice 215–221
discourse on philoneikia 226–232
Eudemus as Galen’s spokesman 221–226
and the proem to Therapeutic Method 205–212
on salutatio 190
truth 197–205, 212–215
prohairesis (reasoned choice/volition) 35, 100, 185 see also boulēsis (volition)
Prop. Plac. see My Own Opinions
Protr. see Exhortation to the Study of Medicine
protreptic 22–24, 121–123, 131, 235
proverbs 26–27
Pseudo-Plutarch
Consolation to Apollonius 72n18
On the Education of Children 106–107
Pseudo-Quintilian, The Lesser Declamations 243
psychological disturbances 6–7n19, 8–9
psychology, naturalistic 35–36
psychotherapy/psychotherapeutics 5, 6, 124
and Affections and Errors of the Soul 124, 128, 170–171
and Avoiding Distress 70
and the Stoics 84–85
Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos 36n13
Public Pronouncements in the Presence of Pertinax 4n15
pudor 46
pulse 25, 129–130n16, 197n13, 218n68
Purg. Med. Fac. see Capacity of Cleansing Drugs, The
Purpose of Life According to Philosophy, The 4n15
Pythian motto 133
QAM see Capacities of the Soul Depend on the Mixtures of the Body
Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory 107
Quintus 181, 213
rage 62n24, 138, 148, 152
rational/irrational animals 60, 98–102, 114, 154, 155
al-Rāzī, Spiritual Medicine 244n9
reading, ethics of 209, 227
reasoned choice (prohairesis) 35, 100, 185
Recognising the Best Physician (Opt. Med. Cogn.) 139, 174–176, 192–193
as diatribe 84
the flatterer physician 176–179
medicine and society 184–189
philosophical medicine 189–192
physician as helmsman analogy 179–184
recollection (anamnēsis)
in Avoiding Distress 89–90
in Prognosis 226–227
remembering see recollection
reproach 52–53, 57, 58–59, 133
reputation 139
false 156
love of (φιλοδοξία) 25, 167, 204
in Prognosis 198, 210
rhetoric
in Exhortation 111, 114
moralising 11–12
and Recognising the Best Physician 183
On Rich People Infatuated with Money 3–4n13
rivalry (eris) 24, 208, 231
Robbins, J. 31n24
Rome, society 179, 187
Rosen, R. 63n27, 128–129n14, 133n27, 208n47, 211n53
Rufus of Ephesus 6, 35n9, 234
salutation (salutatio) 190, 198, 199, 206
San. Tu. see Matters of Health
Saturnalia 3n12
Schadenfreude 219–220
Scribonius Largus, On the Composition of Medicines 204–205
Second Sophistic 60, 84, 129, 145–146n60, 201, 239–240
nostalgia 176
self, care of the 76, 144
self-control 35n10, 38–39, 40, 41, 43–44
self-effacement 66, 237
Affections and Errors of the Soul 162
in Avoiding Distress 93
in Matters of Health 49
self-humbling 60
self-praise 81, 128, 191–192
self-promotion 11, 232–233, 241
Affections and Errors of the Soul 126, 128, 129, 170
Prognosis 194
Recognising the Best Physician 181
self-sufficiency 82–83, 105, 169, 170, 210n50
Semen (Sem.) 60, 144n52
Seneca 38, 71, 77
On the control of Anger 153
Letter 90 100, 122
Letter 94 141
on slaves 152
On the Tranquillity of the Soul 78
Serapion 217n64
Sergius Paulus 229n96
sex/sexuality 48n58, 91, 114–115, 159
Sextus 230
Sextus Empiricus 7
shame-culture 46
shame/shamelessness (ἀναισχυντία) 25–26
in Affections and Errors of the Soul 155–156
in Matters of Health 44–49
silence 62–63, 136
Singer, P.N. 131n19, 170n112
slander 60, 185–186n28, 218, 242
On Slander 3–4n13
slaves 108, 152–153
imagery 182, 207
sleep 26
SMT see Capacities of Simple Drugs, The
social decency 223–224, 238
sociative ‘we’ 77, 102, 112
Socrates 112
in Apology (Plato) 214
in Gorgias (Plato) 178, 181, 182, 183–184, 214
in Memorabilia (Xenophon) 189
protreptic 122
Soph. see Linguistic Sophisms
sophists/sophistry 51, 53–56, 61–64, 201–202, 211–212
Sophocles, Antigone 23n4
Soranus of Ephesus 7, 7n21, 38
On the Soul 7n21
soul 7
Affections and Errors of the Soul 135
as desiderative/appetitive 8–9n29, 34, 131, 155, 156–158
Galen as cleanser of 52 see also Affections and Errors of the Soul; Capacities of the Soul (QAM)
specialisation 161–162
spiders 99–100
Stobaeus, Anthology 107
Stoics 52, 227
and apatheia 90–91, 155
and Avoiding Distress 84–85, 87
emotion theory 138
indifferents 83, 108, 169
on irrational animals 98–99
and rhetoric 183
on shame 46–47
Strato of Lampsacus 99n26
strife, love, of see philoneikia
Subf. Emp. see Outline of Empiricism
suggestion 79
Sulla (in On the Control of Anger (Plutarch)) 152–153
supervisors, moral, Affections and Errors of the Soul 137–141
Swain, Simon 234
symbolic goods 134
symmetron 168–169
symposium 36, 206–207
synkriseis 59
Tabula of Cebes 29
Temkin, Owsei 193
Temp. see On Mixtures
Temple of Peace (Rome) 79
Teuthras 144–145
Themistocles 107–108
Theognis 36
Theophrastus 99n26
Therapeutic Method (MM)
case history 230–231, 233
compared to Prognosis 205–212
as diatribe 84
distress 88–89
doxosophia 198
on Hippocrates’s shortcomings 130
Methodists 183
on salutatio 190
Therapeutics to Glaucon (MMG) 70, 243
therapy of emotions 42n35, 72, 93
therapy of the word 151
theriac 74
Thersites 58, 146–147
Thessalus 57–58, 208–212
Things Said in Public Against Flatterers 3–4n13
Thras. see Thrasybulus: Is Healthiness a Part of Medicine or of Gymnastics?
Thrasybulus: Is Healthiness a Part of Medicine or of Gymnastics? (Thras.) 40, 119
Thucydides, History 23n4, 185–186
Thumiger, C. 151n78
Timarion (Anonymous) 236
time 188
training
and Affections and Errors of the Soul 146, 170–171
and Avoiding Distress 86–89 see also paideia
Trajan 197
tranquillity 73, 77–78
Treatment by Bloodletting (Cur. Rat. Ven. Sect.) 199n25
truth 144, 233
Affections and Errors of the Soul 139–141, 166
On Errors 136–137
and Foucault 144
George Orwell 194
love of (φιλαλήθεια) 25, 28–29, 113n102, 191
and Prognosis 197–205, 212–215
in Recognising the Best Physician 191
in Therapeutic Method 205–206
Tychē see fate
tyrants 40, 90, 121n140, 181
ugliness 109n82, 146–147, 148
the unsophisticated (idiōtai) 201
UP see Function of the Parts of the Body, The
van der Eijk, Ph. 42n37, 42n38
Ven. Sect. Er. Rom. see Bloodletting, Against the Erasistrateans at Rome
Vespasian 197
Vettulenus Barbarus 229n96
vice 25, 49–50, 53, 167, 232n101
Affections and Errors of the Soul 53, 143
babbling 64–65
Capacities of the Soul 52
The Capacities of Simple Drugs 55
The Capacity of Cleansing Drugs 52–53
The Different Kinds of Fever 49–50
Matters of Health 37
φιλοριστία 56
in Prognosis 222–224
in Roman Society 187 see also insatiability; moral passions; virtue
The Capacities of Simple Drugs 55
virtue 35, 41n33, 74–75 see also moderation
Vlatadon 14 69, 93–94
voluntary action 35, 164
Walsh, Joseph 121
water/wood debate 129–130
‘we’, sociative 77, 102, 112
wealth (material) 105
love of 92, 166, 167–170
wellbeing 5, 7, 48, 119, 189, 226, 234
To What Extent the Esteem and Opinion of the Public is to be Taken into Account 3–4n13
Whether Physiology is Useful for Moral Philosophy 4n15, 34–35
White, H. 27n14
Williams, Bernard 46
wine 36–41 see also drunkenness
wisdom, pretext of 198–199
wish technique 55–56
wood/water debate 129–130
wrestling 118, 119
Xenophon, Memorabilia 189
youth/young people 108–111
Zeno 83
Zeus 91
Ziegler, K. 2n8

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