Galen : Writings on Health - P. N. Singer

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Galen

Writings on Health

By: P. N. Singer (Editor)

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Hardcover | 9 March 2023

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538 Pages

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23.4 x 16.4 x 3.9

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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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'This new translation by P. N. Singer, part of the important and evolving Cambridge Galen Translations series, makes two of his essays available to a modern audience ... Singer brings a wonderful sense of clarify and precision, not least because of the way in which he talks us through the challenges of translating Galen so thoroughly.' Times Literary Supplement

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