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1 online resource (xv, 331 pages) : illustrations |
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Series |
Sapere ; Bd. 12 |
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Sapere (Darmstadt, Germany) ; Bd. 12.
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Language |
Fragments in Arabic, Greek, and Latin with English translation; introduction, commentary, and essays in English. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-310) and indexes. |
Contents |
Text and translation / Peter E. Pormann -- Commentary / Peter E. Pormann -- Social stress and political pressure : On melancholy in context / Simon Swain -- The medical world of Rufus of Ephesus / Vivian Nutton -- Rufus' On melancholy and its pholosophical background / Philip J. van der Eijk -- Melancholy in the medieval world : the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions / Peter E. Pormann -- Dürer and Rufus : Melencolia I in the medical tradition / Peter-Klaus Schuster, Jörg Völlnagel -- Rufus of Ephesus and the tradition of the melancholy thinker / Peter Toohey -- Rufus' legacy in the psychopathological literature of the (early) modern period / Thomas Rütten -- Greek text, and Arabic and English translations of Galen's On the affected parts iii. 9-10 / Philip J. van der Eijk, Peter E. Pormann -- Isq ibm ‘Imrn on scholarly melancholy / Peter E. Pormann -- Melancholy in ar-Rz's Book of experiences / Peter E. Pormann. |
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Print version record. |
Summary |
Rufus of Ephesus' (fl. ca. AD 100) On Melancholy deals with a medical condition oscillating between madness, depression, and bouts of great creativity. This collection of the Greek, Latin, and Arabic fragments makes this text easily available for the first time. |
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Subject |
Rufus, of Ephesus. On melancholy.
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Rufus (Ephesius)
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Melancholy -- Early works to 1800.
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Medicine, Greek and Roman.
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Mental illness.
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Mental Disorders |
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Mélancolie -- Ouvrages avant 1800.
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Médecine grecque et romaine.
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Maladies mentales.
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mental disorders.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
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Mental illness
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Medicine, Greek and Roman
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Melancholy
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Melancholie
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Genre/Form |
Early works
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Added Author |
Pormann, Peter E.
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Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR |
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OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN |
Other Form: |
Print version: Rufus, of Ephesus. On melancholy. Polyglot. On melancholy. Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, ©2008 (DLC) 2009378552 (OCoLC)276807143 |
ISBN |
9783161564420 (electronic bk.) |
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3161564421 (electronic bk.) |
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9783161497605 (electronic bk.) |
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3161497600 (electronic bk.) |
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9783161497599 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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3161497597 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
Standard No. |
AU@ 000066528276 |
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CHNEW 001035552 |
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CHVBK 556240146 |
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