>On Avoiding Distresson My Own Opinions

by Galen

The discovery of the fifteenth-century codex Vlatadon 14 in 2005 was an extraordinary moment for scholars of Graeco Roman antiquity, as it brought to light a new witness to a large collection of Galen's medical and philosophical works. Among them is the moral essay De indolentia (On Avoiding Distress), a text long deemed lost, and the De propriis placitis (On My Own Opinions), a doxographical piece with a complex textual tradition, up to that point...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3111320413
• ISBN13: 9783111320410
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"