Galen: Writings on Health : Thrasybulus and Health (De sanitate tuenda)
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Galen Translations
ISBN-10
1009159518
ISBN-13
9781009159517
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 9th, 2023
Print length
538 Pages
Weight
898 grams
Dimensions
23.40 x 16.40 x 3.90 cms
Product Classification:
Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500History of medicine
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Galen's Health was the most important work on daily exercise, diet and health regimes in antiquity, with a huge later influence. This book presents a new, scholarly translation giving access to this work, with a substantial introduction and annotations that bring the ancient context and related debates to life.
Galen''s Health (De sanitate tuenda) was the most important work on daily exercise, diet and health regimes in antiquity. This book presents the first reliable scholarly translation of this work in English, alongside the related theoretical work Thrasybulus. A substantial introduction and thorough annotation elucidate both works and contextualize them within the framework of ancient health practices, ancient conceptions of the body and debates between medical and philosophical schools. The texts are of enormous interest from three points of view: (1) the wide range of insights they give into ancient everyday lifestyles, especially as regards diet, bathing, exercise and materia medica, as well as aspects of daily intellectual life; (2) the light they shed on ancient debates within medicine and philosophy, on fundamental conceptions of the body and the relationship between body and mind; (3) the enormous influence that Health had in mediaeval and early modern times.
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