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Author Rufus, of Ephesus.

Uniform Title On melancholy. Polyglot
Title On melancholy / Rufus of Ephesus ; edited by Peter E. Pormann.

Imprint Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, ©2008.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 331 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Sapere ; Bd. 12
Sapere (Darmstadt, Germany) ; Bd. 12.
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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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.
Rufus (Ephesius)
Melancholy -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
Mental illness.
Mental Disorders
Mélancolie -- Ouvrages avant 1800.
Médecine grecque et romaine.
Maladies mentales.
mental disorders.
PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
Mental illness
Medicine, Greek and Roman
Melancholy
Melancholie
Genre/Form Early works
Added Author Pormann, Peter E.
In: Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
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.)
3161564421 (electronic bk.)
9783161497605 (electronic bk.)
3161497600 (electronic bk.)
9783161497599 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
3161497597 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Standard No. AU@ 000066528276
CHNEW 001035552
CHVBK 556240146

 
    
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