Galien de Pergame ou la rhétorique de la providence : Médecine, littérature et pouvoir à Rome
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 7374
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1163/9789004380967
- Publisher
- Brill
- ISBN
- 9789004380967
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This substantial monograph, published by a major international press, is the first comprehensive study of the role of rhetoric in Galen’s œuvre, and represents an important and original contribution to the study of Galen. It shows impressive mastery both of the huge Corpus Galenicum and of ancient rhetoric, bridging disciplinary divides and advancing our understanding of Galen not just as a medic and man of Letters, but as a literary author. The book was awarded the quinquennal Médaille de Chénier de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (2019).
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- This is the first comprehensive study of the role of rhetoric in Galen’s œuvre. Physician to several Roman emperors and author of the most impressive body of works in antiquity up to AD 350, Galen created a compelling figure of authority through his medical and philosophical works. The book analyses the range of Galen’s rhetorical mastery through five chapters, studying in turn Galen and the Hellenic tradition, Galen’s demonstrative and refutative tactics, the role of enargeia in Galen’s descriptions and narratives, his ‘hymn’ to Nature in his main anatomical work, De usu partium, and autobiography and self-portrait in his œuvre.
