Böcker i Cambridge Galen Translations-serien

This book provides new English translations, with commentary, of psychological writings by Galen, the foremost philosopher-doctor of the ancient world. One previously lost work, Avoiding Distress, is translated here for the first time. This title is part of a new series providing a major new resource for the study of classical medicine.

This book provides new English translations, with commentary, of psychological writings by Galen, the foremost philosopher-doctor of the ancient world. One previously lost work, Avoiding Distress, is translated here for the first time. This title is part of a new series providing a major new resource for the study of classical medicine.

In this book, the Graeco-Roman doctor Galen sets out his influential theory of the 'mixtures' of the human body and his ideal of the 'well-tempered' person, whose perfect balance ensures excellent performance both physically and psychologically. It is a key text in the history of ideas about the human organism.