Ancient Greek Medicine in Questions and Answers: Diagnostics, Didactics, Dialectics

254 Pages·2020·2.135 MB·English

by  Michiel Meeusen

AncientGreekMedicineinQuestionsandAnswers
Studies in Ancient Medicine
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Ancient Greek Medicine in
Questions and Answers
Diagnostics,Didactics,Dialectics
Editedby
MichielMeeusen
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
ListofFigures viii
NotesonContributors ix
AncientGreekMedicineinQuestionsandAnswers:AShort
Introduction 1
MichielMeeusen
1 QuestioningtheObvious:TheUseofQuestionsandAnswersinAssessing
ConsciousnessintheHippocraticCorpus 8
AndrésPelavski
2 PeripateticandHippocraticSeedsinPseudo-Aristotle,Problemata4:
RaisingQuestionsaboutAristotle’sRejectionofthePangenesisTheoryof
Generation 28
RobertMayhew
3 Author(s)andReader(s)intheSupplementaryProblems(Supplementa
Problematorum) 55
KaterinaOikonomopoulou
4 Ps.-AlexanderofAphrodisiasonUnsayablePropertiesinMedicalPuzzles
andNaturalProblems 80
MichielMeeusen
5 EroteticLogic,UncertaintyandTherapy:GalenandAlexanderonLogic
andMedicine 108
LucaGili
6 Laréponsedumédecin:lesrapportsd’inspectionmédicaleécritsengrec
surpapyrus(Ier-IVesiècles) 133
AntonioRicciardetto
7 DefinitionsandTechnicalTerminologyintheErôtapokriseison
Papyrus 154
IsabellaBonati
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8 DigitizingMedicalPapyriinQuestion-and-AnswerFormat 181
NicolaReggiani
9 QuestionsontheUnseen:AlexanderofTralles’PatientInteraction 213
LauraMareri
IndexLocorum 223
IndexRerumNominumque 234
Acknowledgements
The volume at hand collects a series of 9 papers stemming from an inter-
nationalconferencewhichaimedtostudytheuseof questionsandanswers
(Q&A)inancientmedicalliterature:WhereDoesItHurt?AncientMedicinein
QuestionsandAnswers(Leuven,August30–31,2016).Mostof thepapersread
duringthisconferencearepublished,afterrevision,inthepresentvolume.I
wouldliketorecordmysinceregratitudetothecontributorsfortheirpleas-
antcooperationandfortheirpatienceinthefaceof delay.Specialthanksto
Dr.ErikaGielenforco-organisingtheeventinLeuvenandtotheKULeuven
DoctoralSchoolfortheHumanitiesandSocialSciences,theDepartmentofLit-
eraryStudies,theDeWulf-MansionCentreforAncient,MedievalandRenais-
sancePhilosophy,andtheLeuvenCentrefortheStudyoftheTransmissionof
Texts and Ideas in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Lectio)
fortheirfinancialandorganisationalsupport.Theconferencewasorganised
in conclusion of my postdoctoral project “Between Tradition, Ingenuity and
Innovation.AuthorialStrategiesinAncientGreekNaturalProblems”(funded
bytheResearchFoundationFlanders—FWO).
MichielMeeusen
Leuven,1May2020
Figures
1.1 ConfusionAssessmentMethodfortheIntensiveCareUnit(CAM-ICU) 11
1.2 MiniMentalStateExamination(MMSE) 12
8.1 P.Ross.Georg.I20 187
8.2 P.Aberd.125v 188
8.3 P.Oxy.LII3654 189
8.4 GMPII15 190
8.5a P.Oxy.LXXX5239 192
8.5b P.Osloinv.1576v 192
8.6 P.PisaLit.6 193
8.7 P.Oxy.LXXX5238 194
8.8 P.Aberd.11 195
8.9 GMPII14 196
8.10 PSIXV1510 198
8.11 MPERXIII19 199
8.12 PSIinv.3783 199
8.13 GMPII15 201
8.14a P.LundI7recto 202
8.14b P.LundI7verso 203
8.15 P.Mil.Vogl.I15 204
8.16 P.Oxy.LXXIV4972v 204
8.17 P.Turner14 205
8.18 GMPI6 205
Notes on Contributors
IsabellaBonati
isalecturerandPostdoctoralFellowattheNorth-WestUniversityof Potchef-
stroom(SouthAfrica).ShewaspreviouslyaPostdoctoralFellowinPapyrology
at the University of Parma (Italy), and holds a PhD in Papyrology from the
sameUniversity,whereshealsocompletedbothherBAandherMAinClassics.
Herresearchinterestsrangewidelyandincludepapyrology,classicalphilology,
linguistics,materialculture,historyof medicineandscience.Shehasseveral
publicationsinPapyrologyandClassics,amongwhichabookentitledGlosse
esoticheneiframmentidiIpponatte.Gliesotisminellalinguadelgiambografodi
Efeso(EAI,Saarbrücken2015),andthemonographIllessicodeivasiedeiconten-
itorigrecineipapiri.Speciminaperunrepertoriolessicaledegliangionimigreci
(APF-B37,DeGruyter,Berlin-Boston2016).
LucaGili
(PhDKULeuven,2016)isanassistantprofessorofphilosophyattheUniversité
duQuébecàMontréal.HewroteadissertationonThomasAquinas’philosophy
of change,abookonAlexanderof Aphrodisias’logic(LasillogisticadiAless-
androdiAfrodisia,Olms2011)andseveralarticlesonAristotle’slogicandmeta-
physics.Heiscurrentlyworkingonabookprojectontheusesandthemean-
ingsof thecopulafromParmenidestoEpicurus.Recentpublicationsinclude
Non-Existent but Potentially Actual. Aristotle on Plenitude (Revue de philolo-
gie, 2016, with L. Ferroni) and the edited collectionThirdPisaColloquiumin
Logic,LanguageandEpistemology(Ets,2019,withL.Bellotti,E.Moriconiand
G.Turbanti).
LauraMareri
completedherPhDinClassicalPhilologyin2016attheUniversityofMacerata.
AfteraninitialtrainingonthesubjectofancientmedicineattheUniversityof
Siena, where she primarily focused on the study of Galen, she subsequently
concentratedhermainresearcheffortsonByzantinemedicine,withparticu-
larregardtoAlexanderofTralles,aswellasontheancienttheoriesofmental
disorders,especiallymelancholy.
RobertMayhew
is Professor of Philosophy at Seton Hall University (New Jersey, USA). His
publications in ancient philosophy include Aristotle’sLostHomericProblems
(OxfordUP),Theophrastus:OnWinds(Brill),ProdicustheSophist(OxfordUP),
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Plato:Laws10(OxfordUP),andTheFemaleinAristotle’sBiology(U.ofChicago
Press).HeistheeditorofAristotle:ProblemsintheLoebClassicalLibrary,andof
TheAristotelianProblemataPhysica:PhilosophicalandScientificInvestigations
(Brill).HeiscurrentlyintheearlystagesofworkontheDemirabilibusausculta-
tionibus(OnMarvelousThingsHeard)attributedtoAristotle.
MichielMeeusen
(PhDKULeuven,2013)specialisesinancientscienceandmedicineandthelit-
eratureandcultureoftheHighRomanEmpire.Amonghispublicationsarea
monographonPlutarch’sNaturalQuestions(Leuven2016)andaco-authored
editionofthesametextintheCollectiondesuniversitésdeFrance(Paris2018).
Healsopublishedonthebroadergenreofnatural-medicalproblemsafterthe
modelof theAristotelian NaturalProblemswithspecificattentiontothecol-
lection’scirculationintheHighImperialera.
KaterinaOikonomopoulou
is Assistant Professor of Greek Literature at the University of Patras. Her re-
search focuses on imperial Graeco-Roman encyclopaedic and compilatory
writing, including the ancient literature of problemata. Her publications in-
cludebookchaptersonthepseudo-AristotelianProblemataPhysica(‘TheProb-
lemata’s medical books: structural and methodological aspects’, in:TheAris-
totelian Problemata Physica: Philosophical and Scientific Investigations, ed.
Robert Mayhew, Brill 2015: 61–78), and on Plutarch’s Quaestiones-collections
(‘Plutarch’s corpus of Quaestiones in the tradition of imperial Greek encyc-
lopaedism’, in: Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance, eds. Jason
König and Greg Woolf, Cambridge University Press 2013: 129–153). She has
also co-edited a volume of essays on Plutarch’s Quaestiones Convivales (The
Philosopher’s Banquet: Plutarch’s ‘Table Talk’ in the Intellectual Culture of the
RomanEmpire,withFriedaKlotz,OxfordUniversityPress2011).Sheiscurrently
preparingamonographonGreekmiscellanisticwritingintheSecondSoph-
istic.
AndrésPelavski
isamedicaldoctorandworksasaqualifiedanaesthetist.HeisafinalyearPhD
studentatCambridgeUniversity.Hisresearchfocusesondisturbancesofcon-
sciousness in ancient medical texts. His interest in the History of Medicine
developedduringhisMPhil(alsoinCambridge,Facultyof Classics).Priorto
that,hestudiedClassicsattheUniversityofBarcelona.