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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rufus, of Ephesus
Other Authors: Pormann, Peter E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Arabic
Griego Antiguo
Latín
Published: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, ©2008.
Series:Sapere (Darmstadt, Germany) ; Bd. 12.
Subjects:
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.
Melancholy.
Melancholie
Early works.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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
  • Isḥāq ibm ʻImrān on scholarly melancholy / Peter E. Pormann
  • Melancholy in ar-Rāzī's Book of experiences / Peter E. Pormann.

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