Galen, De indolentia, and Early Christian Literature
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https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v44i3.27924Keywords:
Galen, Rome, Early Christian Literature, CodexAbstract
Galen's De indolentia, a recently discovered letter-treatise, provides salient evidence for culture, literature, medicine, and philosophy at Rome in the late second century CE. Galen's vast oeuvre offers an important—although often neglected—source for the study of early Christian literature.
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Benko, Stephen. 1980. “Pagan Criticism of Christianity During the First Centuries A.D.” ANRW 2.23.2:1055–118.
Blum, Joseph H. 1993–94. “Galen and the Judeo-Christian Tradition: Reflections on Galen’s Attitude toward Critical Examination.” Korot 10: 115–34.
Boudon-Millot, Véronique. 2012. Galien de Pergame: Un médecin grec à Rome. Paris: Les Belles Lettres.
———. 2014. “Vlatadon 14 and Ambrosianus Q 3 Sup: Two Twin Manuscripts.” In Galen’s De indolentia, edited by Clare K. Rothschild and Trevor W. Thompson, 41–56. Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen.
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Garofalo, Ivan, and Alessandro Lami. 2012. L’anima e il dolore. De indolentia, De propriis placitis. Milan: RCS libri.
Gill, Christopher. 2010. Naturalistic Psychology in Galen and Stoicism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hankinson, R. J. 1993. “Actions and Passion: Affection, Emotion, and Moral Self-Management in Galen’s Philosophical Psychology.” In Passions and Perceptions: Studies in the Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind, edited by Jacques Brunschwig and Martha C. Nussbaum, 184–222. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521819541.001.
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Kaster, Robert A. 2005. Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195140781.001.0001.
Konstan, David. 2007. The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Kotzia, Paraskevi, and Panagiotis Sotiroudis. 2010. “??????? ???? ??????.” Hellenica 60: 63–150.
Kühn, Karl Gottlob. 1821–33. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia. Leipzig: C. Knobloch.
Lampe, Peter. 2003. From Paul to Valentinus: Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries. Edited by Marshall D. Johnson. Translated by Michael Steinhauser. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
Martin, Dale. 2004. Inventing Superstition from the Hippocratics to the Christians. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Mattern, Susan P. 2013. The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Nutton, Vivian. 1976. Karl Gottlob Kühn and his Edition of the Works of Galen. Oxford: Oxford Microfilm Publications.
———. 2008. “The Fortunes of Galen.” In The Cambridge Companion to Galen, edited by R. J. Hankinson, 355–90. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521819541.
———. 2010. “Embodiments of Will.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 53, no. 2: 271–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pbm.0.0151.
———. 2013. “Avoiding Distress.” In Galen: Psychological Writings, edited P. N. Singer, 43–106. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rothschild, Clare K., and Trevor W. Thompson. 2014. “Galen: ‘On the Avoidance of Distress.’” In Galen’s De indolentia: Essay on a Newly Discovered Letter, edited by Clare K. Rothschild and Trevor W. Thompson, 21–40. Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen.
———. 2011. “Galen: ‘On the Avoidance of Grief.’” EC 2, no. 1: 110–29.
Schlange-Schöningen, Heinrich. 2003. Die römische Gesellschaft bei Galen: Biographie und Sozialgeschichte. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110894011.
Schrope, Mark. 2015. “Medicine’s Hidden Roots in an Ancient Manuscript. New York Times, June 1. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/science/medicines-hidden-roots-in-an-ancient-manuscript.html
Singer, P. N. “General Introduction.” In Galen: Psychological Writings, edited by P. N. Singer, 10–17. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Snyder, H. Gregory. 2013. “The Classroom in the Text: Exegetical Practices in Justin and Galen.” In Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture: Social and Literary Contexts for the New Testament, edited by Stanley E. Porter and Andrew Pitt, 663–86. Leiden: Brill.
Sprengling, Martin. 1917. “Galen on the Christians. ” AmJT 21: 94–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/479793.
Tieleman, Teun. 2013. “Miracle and Natural Cause in Galen.” In Miracles Revisited: New Testament Miracle Stories and their Concepts of Reality, edited by Stefan Alkier and Annette Weissenrieder, 101–14. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110296372.101.
Van der Eijk, Philip. 2014. “Galen and Early Christians on the Role of the Divine in the Causation and Treatment of Health and Disease.” EC 5: 337–70.
Walzer, Richard R. 1949. Galen on Jews and Christians. London: Oxford University Press. Walzer, Richard R. 1972. “Galenos.” RAC 8: 776–86. Wilken, Robert L. 2003. The Christians as the Romans Saw Them. 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Benko, Stephen. 1980. “Pagan Criticism of Christianity During the First Centuries A.D.” ANRW 2.23.2:1055–118.
Blum, Joseph H. 1993–94. “Galen and the Judeo-Christian Tradition: Reflections on Galen’s Attitude toward Critical Examination.” Korot 10: 115–34.
Boudon-Millot, Véronique. 2012. Galien de Pergame: Un médecin grec à Rome. Paris: Les Belles Lettres.
———. 2014. “Vlatadon 14 and Ambrosianus Q 3 Sup: Two Twin Manuscripts.” In Galen’s De indolentia, edited by Clare K. Rothschild and Trevor W. Thompson, 41–56. Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen.
Boudon-Millot, Véronique, and Jacques Jouanna, (with Antoine Pietrobelli). 2010. Galien: Ne pas se chagriner. Paris: Les Belles Lettres.
Garofalo, Ivan, and Alessandro Lami. 2012. L’anima e il dolore. De indolentia, De propriis placitis. Milan: RCS libri.
Gill, Christopher. 2010. Naturalistic Psychology in Galen and Stoicism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hankinson, R. J. 1993. “Actions and Passion: Affection, Emotion, and Moral Self-Management in Galen’s Philosophical Psychology.” In Passions and Perceptions: Studies in the Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind, edited by Jacques Brunschwig and Martha C. Nussbaum, 184–222. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521819541.001.
Hankinson, R. J. 2008. “The Man and His Work.” In The Cambridge Companion to Galen, edited by R. J. Hankinson, 1–33. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Harris, William V. 2001. Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/9780674038356.
Kaster, Robert A. 2005. Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195140781.001.0001.
Konstan, David. 2007. The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Kotzia, Paraskevi, and Panagiotis Sotiroudis. 2010. “??????? ???? ??????.” Hellenica 60: 63–150.
Kühn, Karl Gottlob. 1821–33. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia. Leipzig: C. Knobloch.
Lampe, Peter. 2003. From Paul to Valentinus: Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries. Edited by Marshall D. Johnson. Translated by Michael Steinhauser. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
Martin, Dale. 2004. Inventing Superstition from the Hippocratics to the Christians. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Mattern, Susan P. 2013. The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Nutton, Vivian. 1976. Karl Gottlob Kühn and his Edition of the Works of Galen. Oxford: Oxford Microfilm Publications.
———. 2008. “The Fortunes of Galen.” In The Cambridge Companion to Galen, edited by R. J. Hankinson, 355–90. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521819541.
———. 2010. “Embodiments of Will.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 53, no. 2: 271–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pbm.0.0151.
———. 2013. “Avoiding Distress.” In Galen: Psychological Writings, edited P. N. Singer, 43–106. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rothschild, Clare K., and Trevor W. Thompson. 2014. “Galen: ‘On the Avoidance of Distress.’” In Galen’s De indolentia: Essay on a Newly Discovered Letter, edited by Clare K. Rothschild and Trevor W. Thompson, 21–40. Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen.
———. 2011. “Galen: ‘On the Avoidance of Grief.’” EC 2, no. 1: 110–29.
Schlange-Schöningen, Heinrich. 2003. Die römische Gesellschaft bei Galen: Biographie und Sozialgeschichte. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110894011.
Schrope, Mark. 2015. “Medicine’s Hidden Roots in an Ancient Manuscript. New York Times, June 1. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/science/medicines-hidden-roots-in-an-ancient-manuscript.html
Singer, P. N. “General Introduction.” In Galen: Psychological Writings, edited by P. N. Singer, 10–17. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Snyder, H. Gregory. 2013. “The Classroom in the Text: Exegetical Practices in Justin and Galen.” In Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture: Social and Literary Contexts for the New Testament, edited by Stanley E. Porter and Andrew Pitt, 663–86. Leiden: Brill.
Sprengling, Martin. 1917. “Galen on the Christians. ” AmJT 21: 94–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/479793.
Tieleman, Teun. 2013. “Miracle and Natural Cause in Galen.” In Miracles Revisited: New Testament Miracle Stories and their Concepts of Reality, edited by Stefan Alkier and Annette Weissenrieder, 101–14. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110296372.101.
Van der Eijk, Philip. 2014. “Galen and Early Christians on the Role of the Divine in the Causation and Treatment of Health and Disease.” EC 5: 337–70.
Walzer, Richard R. 1949. Galen on Jews and Christians. London: Oxford University Press. Walzer, Richard R. 1972. “Galenos.” RAC 8: 776–86. Wilken, Robert L. 2003. The Christians as the Romans Saw Them. 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press.
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2015-09-07
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Thompson, T. (2015). Galen, De indolentia, and Early Christian Literature. Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 44(3), 20-25. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v44i3.27924
