Table of Contents - Adobe PDF (733.16 kB)
Adobe PDF (4.97 MB)
Brochure
Download
User comments
Similar Books
Title Details:
History of mental disorders in classical antiquity
Other Titles: Mania and melancholia
Authors: Kazantzidis, George
Subject: MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES, LIFE SCIENCES, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > HEALTH SCIENCES > MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > SPECIALIZED HISTORIES > HISTORY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > HISTORY > SPECIALIZED HISTORIES > CULTURAL HISTORY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY > ANCIENT GREEK PHILOLOGY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY > LATIN PHILOLOGY
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > SOCIOLOGY > SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE > HISTORY OF IDEAS
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > PHILOSOPHY > HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY > ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > LITERARY FORMS AND GENRES > PROSE > NONFICTION > MEDICAL LITERATURE
Keywords:
Mental disorders
Mania
Melancholia
Greco-Roman antiquity
Hippocratic corpus
Celsus, De medicina
Aretaeus of Cappadocia
Galen
Caelius Aurelianus
History of medicine
History of science
History of ideas
Description:
Abstract:
This book attempts to map the history of mania and melancholia in the medical thought of Greco-Roman antiquity through the selection, translation and extensive commentary of a number of texts dating from the 5th century BC to the 5th century AD. The first chapter focuses on the Hippocratic collection --the first systematic medical corpus that has survived to us from antiquity (5th-4th century BC). The second chapter focuses on De medicina by the encyclopedist Celsus (1st century AD), who lived and produced his work at Rome at the time when Tiberius was emperor. The third and fourth chapters examine the views of Aretaeus of Cappadocia (1st-2nd century AD) and Galen (2nd century AD) respectively. From Aretaeus we have a treatise entitled On the causes and signs of acute and chronic diseases. Aretaeus' chapters on mania and melancholia stand out as excellent examples of a kind of writing that combines clinical precision with literary merit and aspirations. Galen, in his turn, is by far the most important physician of Greco-Roman antiquity. The fifth and final chapter deals with the De morbis acutis et chronics by Caelius Aurelianus (4th-5th century AD). This text is a Latin translation of the (lost) Περὶ ὀξέων καὶ χρονίων παθῶν by Soranus of Ephesus (1st-2nd century AD). In translating the Greek original, Caelius adds his own personal voice, thus giving us the opportunity to follow the medical developments on the topic of mania and melancholia in late antiquity.
Linguistic Editors: Tzimogianni, Marianthi
Graphic Editors: Tsionis, Elias
Type: Undergraduate textbook
Creation Date: 17-01-2025
Item Details:
ISBN 978-618-228-293-9
License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-1044
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/14035
Bibliographic Reference: Kazantzidis, G. (2025). History of mental disorders in classical antiquity [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-1044
Language: Greek
Consists of:
1. Hippocratic corpus
2. Celsus
3. Aretaeus of Cappadocia
4. Galen
5. Caelius Aurelianus
Number of pages 338
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
You can also view
User comments
There are no published comments available!