Le Divin Hippocrate De Galien

Boudon-Millot, Véronique

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“…Alexander also provides a direct reference to Galen in the heading preceding his account, calling him 'most divine' and thus emphasising his authority. However, Alexander often adopted a different approach from that of Oribasios and Aetios, by appropriating larger excerpts from the Galenic account and showing a particular interest in those parts 48 Interestingly, the term theiotatos was also used by Galen with reference to Hippocrates; on this, see Boudon-Millot (2014). 49 Bouras-Vallianatos (2016: 388).…”

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Galen in Late Antique Medical Handbooks

Bouras-Vallianatos¹

2019

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen

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This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the prevailing CC-BY License. chapter 2 Galen in Late Antique Medical Handbooks Petros Bouras-VallianatosStudying the medical literature that was produced from the fourth to the seventh century ad is central to an understanding of how Galen's corpus impacted on the production of medical works, and to some extent on medical practice, during this early period as well as later, through the reception of the late antique medical literature itself in subsequent periods and in different intellectual environments. The medical literature of this period can be divided into two main categories, each corresponding to the basic purpose the texts were intended to serve. First, the fifth to the seventh century in particular was a period marked by the production of texts of a clearly didactic nature, such as commentaries and summaries, which were connected with the teaching of medicine. These texts aimed to complement the study of the Hippocratic and Galenic works that formed the Alexandrian curriculum.1 Although only a small proportion of these texts survive today in the original Greek, others are accessible through Arabic translations.2 Second, this period also saw the production of medical handbooks in Greek and Latin. These works, although differing in thematic arrangement, levels of expertise, and length, all share a common purpose, viz. to assist their readers in consulting practical recommendations, mainly diagnostic and therapeutic, from a variety of sources in the accessible format of a single work. This chapter explores the use and adaptation of the Galenic corpus in the hands of late antique medical compilers. It is divided into two main sections dealing with Greek and Latin authors respectively.

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Galen in Late Antique Medical Handbooks

Bouras-Vallianatos¹

2019

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Galen

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Galen

Boudon-Millot

2024

The Oxford Handbook of Galen

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After his early studies in Pergamum, where he was born in 129, Galen trained with the best physicians and philosophers in Smyrna, Corinth, and Alexandria before returning to his hometown, where he served as physician to the gladiators. Building on his early medical successes, particularly with the treatment of wounds (reflecting his excellent anatomical knowledge), he moved to Rome, where he treated some of the most influential citizens of his time, including the emperor Marcus Aurelius himself. His medical corpus, written entirely in Greek, including many commentaries on a vast number of Hippocratic treatises, was by far the most significant in antiquity in terms of both the mass of accumulated knowledge and the range of subjects covered: anatomy, physiology, therapeutics, hygiene, nosology, sphygmology, and pharmacology, but also philosophy, ethics, and lexicology.

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Le Divin Hippocrate De Galien

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