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This volume focuses on the relationship between Greek medical texts
and their audience(s), offering insights into how not only the
backgrounds and skills of medical authors but also the contemporary
environment affected issues of readership, methodology and mode of
exposition. One of the volume's overarching aims is to add to our
understanding of the role of the reader in the contextualisation of
Greek medical literature in the light of interesting case-studies
from various - often radically different - periods and cultures,
including the Classical (such as the Hippocratic corpus) and Roman
Imperial period (for instance Galen), and the Islamic and Byzantine
world. Promoting, as it does, more in-depth research into the
intricacies of Greek medical writings and their diverse revival and
transformation from the fifth century BC down to the fourteenth
century AD, this volume will be of interest to classicists, medical
historians and anyone concerned with the reception of the Greek
medical tradition. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a
downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
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Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open
Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 3.0 license.
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Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open
Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 3.0 license.
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The discovery of the fifteenth-century codex Vlatadon 14 in 2005
was an extraordinary moment for scholars of Graeco Roman antiquity,
as it brought to light a new witness to a large collection of
Galen’s medical and philosophical works. Among them is the moral
essay De indolentia (On Avoiding Distress), a text long deemed
lost, and the De propriis placitis (On My Own Opinions), a
doxographical piece with a complex textual tradition, up to that
point known only through a corrupt medieval Latin translation and
some passages preserved in Greek. This volume provides a new
critical edition of the two Galenic treatises, which represents a
significant improvement on earlier editorial attempts by offering
more accurate readings of the codex, including supplementation of
previously unrestored lacunae, and many emendations to thorny
passages owed to physical damage in the manuscript as well as
perhaps careless scribes and/or the poor quality of their model.
The more authoritative version of the two texts is accompanied by
fresh English translations and brief introductions, making both
works widely accessible not just to Classicists but also to
scholars and students of ancient medicine, ancient philosophy and
Roman Imperial literary culture.
This volume focuses on the relationship between Greek medical texts
and their audience(s), offering insights into how not only the
backgrounds and skills of medical authors but also the contemporary
environment affected issues of readership, methodology and mode of
exposition. One of the volume's overarching aims is to add to our
understanding of the role of the reader in the contextualisation of
Greek medical literature in the light of interesting case-studies
from various - often radically different - periods and cultures,
including the Classical (such as the Hippocratic corpus) and Roman
Imperial period (for instance Galen), and the Islamic and Byzantine
world. Promoting, as it does, more in-depth research into the
intricacies of Greek medical writings and their diverse revival and
transformation from the fifth century BC down to the fourteenth
century AD, this volume will be of interest to classicists, medical
historians and anyone concerned with the reception of the Greek
medical tradition. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a
downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/OA+PDFs+for+Cara/9781472487919_oachapter3.pdf
Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open
Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/OA+PDFs+for+Cara/9781472487919_oachapter6.pdf
Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open
Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/OA+PDFs+for+Cara/9781472487919_oachapter9.pdf
The Greek commentary tradition devoted to explicating Aristotle's
Nicomachean Ethics (NE) was extensive. It began in antiquity with
Aspasius and reached a point of immense sophistication in the
twelfth century with the commentaries of Eustratius of Nicaea and
Michael of Ephesus, which primarily served educational purposes.
The use of Aristotle's ethics in the classroom continued into the
late Byzantine period, but until recently scholastic use of the NE
was known mostly through George Pachymeres' epitome of the NE (Book
11 of his Philosophia). This volume radically changes the landscape
by providing the editio princeps of the last surviving exegetical
commentary on the NE stricto sensu, also penned by Pachymeres. This
represents a new witness to the importance of Aristotelian studies
in the cultural revival of late Byzantium. The editio princeps is
accompanied by an English translation and a thorough introduction,
which offers an informed reading of the commentary's genre and
layout, relationship to its sources, exegetical strategies, and
philosophical originality. This book also includes the edition of
diagrams and scholia accompanying Pachymeres' exegesis, whose
paratextual function is key to a full understanding of the work.
On Morals or Concerning Education is an exhortation on the
importance of education by the prolific late-Byzantine author and
statesman Theodore Metochites (1270-1332), who rose to the
aristocracy from a middle-class background but fell from favor late
in life and died as a monk. As a manual of proper living and
ethical guidance, the treatise offers unique insights into the
heightened roles of philosophy and rhetoric at a time when the
elite engaged intensely with their Hellenic heritage, part of a
larger imperial attempt to restore Byzantium to its former glories.
On Morals probes hotly disputed issues in fourteenth-century
Byzantine society, such as the distinction between the active and
contemplative life and the social position of scholars.
Metochites's focus on the character and function of Christian faith
also reflects ongoing debates regarding the philosophy of religion.
Occasional autobiographical digressions offer fascinating glimpses
of Metochites's distinctive personality. This volume provides the
full Byzantine Greek text alongside the first English translation
of one of Metochites's longest works.
In addition to being the author of the Parallel Lives of noble
Greeks and Romans, Plutarch of Chaeronea (AD c.46-c.120) is widely
known for his rich ethical theory, which has ensured him a
reputation as one of the most profound moralists in antiquity and
beyond. Previous studies have considered Plutarch's moralism in the
light of specific works or group of works, so that an exploration
of his overall concept of ethical education remains a desideratum.
Bringing together a wide range of texts from both the Parallel
Lives and the Moralia, this study puts the moralising agents that
Plutarch considers important for ethical development at the heart
of its interpretation. These agents operate in different
educational settings, and perform distinct moralising roles,
dictated by the special features of the type of moral education
they are expected to enact. Ethical education in Plutarch becomes a
distinctive manifestation of paideia vis-a-vis the intellectual
trends of the Imperial period, especially in contexts of cultural
identity and power. By reappraising Plutarch's ethical authority
and the significance of his didactic spirit, this book will appeal
not only to scholars and students of Plutarch, but to anyone
interested in the history of moral education and the development of
Greek ethics.
Galen was notable in the ancient world for his creative
intermingling of medicine and practical ethics. This book is the
first authoritative analysis of Galen's psychological and ethical
works alongside a large number of his technical tracts, both
medical and philosophical, and offers a robust framework through
which we can comprehend his role as a practical ethicist - an
aspect of his intellectual profile that has been little understood
until now. Sophia Xenophontos explores a wide range of literature
on moralia in the Roman imperial period, as well as topics
including the pathology of emotions, the social role of medicine,
and character formation and social ethics, to show the
sophisticated and complex ways in which moral themes and
controversies from antiquity were adapted and reinvigorated by
Galen. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge
Core.
Authored by an interdisciplinary team of experts, including
historians, classicists, philosophers and theologians, this
original collection of essays offers the first authoritative
analysis of the multifaceted reception of Greek ethics in late
antiquity and Byzantium (ca. 3rd-14th c.), opening up a hitherto
under-explored topic in the history of Greek philosophy. The essays
discuss the sophisticated ways in which moral themes and
controversies from antiquity were reinvigorated and transformed by
later authors to align with their philosophical and religious
outlook in each period. Topics examined range from ethics and
politics in Neoplatonism and ethos in the context of rhetorical
theory and performance to textual exegesis on Aristotelian ethics.
The volume will appeal to scholars and students in philosophy,
classics, patristic theology, and those working on the history of
education and the development of Greek ethics.
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