Galen is the most important medical writer in Graeco-Roman
antiquity, and also extremely valuable for understanding
Graeco-Roman thought and society in the second century AD. This
volume of essays locates him firmly in the intellectual life of his
period, and thus aims to make better sense of the medical and
philosophical 'world of knowledge' that he tries to create. How did
Galen present himself as a reader and an author in comparison with
other intellectuals of his day? Above all, how did he fashion
himself as a medical practitioner, and how does that
self-fashioning relate to the performance culture of second-century
Rome? Did he see medicine as taking over some of the traditional
roles of philosophy? These and other questions are freshly
addressed by leading international experts on Galen and the
intellectual life of the period, in a stimulating collection that
combines learning with accessibility.
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