UID:
almahu_9949711336002882
Format:
1 online resource (349 p.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
ISBN:
9783161564420
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3161564421
Series Statement:
Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam REligionemque pertinentia 137
Content:
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.
Note:
Social stress and political pressure : On melancholy in context / Simon Swain -- Rufus of Ephesus in the medical context of his time / Vivian Nutton -- Rufus' On melancholy and its philosophical 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.
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Fragments in Arabic, Greek, and Latin with English translation; introduction, commentary, and essays in English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783161497605
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3161497600
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1628/978-3-16-156442-0
