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Grimaudo Sabrina
Ancient Medicine in the Galenic Corpus: The Story of a Concealment
The paper proposes, starting from some certain or probable allusions (in part. a passage in Galen's Commentary on 'Epidemics' 2, only extant in Arabic translation), but also from some striking omissions ('Ancient medicine' is not mentioned in the history of hygiene that Galen traces out in the central chapters of Thrasybulus), to reconstruct the history of this significant ‘concealment’. This will also be done in the light of the numerous passages in the corpus in which Galen advocates, constantly linking it to Hippocrates, the ideal of medicine that is ‘physiologica’.
I sogni συγκριματικοί nella classificazione di Erofilo (frr. 226b-c von Staden)
Nei frr. 226b e 226c von Staden, contenenti la tripartizione dei sogni che le dossografie antiche attribuiscono a Erofilo (θεόπεμπτοι, φυσικοί, συγκριματικοί), contro l’interpretazione corrente (“misti”), si propone di vedere nell’aggettivo συγκριματικοί un termine tecnico di derivazione epicurea riferito all’aggregato corporeo (σύγκριμα) di chi sogna e dell’oggetto del sogno, all’interno della teoria atomistica del fenomeno onirico. Il raffronto con alcuni passi galenici e con alcuni frammenti di Diogene di Enoanda sembra avvalorare tale ipotesi.
Il dibattito sul solecismo nel II secolo D.C. La testimonianza di Galeno.
The article reconstructs Galen’s position on the phenomenon of solecism, by examining the occurrences of σολοικίζω and terms related to it in the Galenic corpus. Solecism was debated in the II century A.D. as part of the more general ‘language issue’. Against the Atticistic trends that were very widespread at that time, Galen appears to be relatively tolerant of solecisms which does not imply a distortion of medical knowledge. Yet, his attitude is very different as regards linguistic errors due to a mistaken view of physical and medical theories.
ΟΓΚΟΙ atomici? Ancora sulle particelle di Asclepiade di Bitinia
The essay takes up again the debated problem of the relationship between the ὄγκοι of the medical system of Asclepiades of Bithynia and the atoms, in the light of the bibliography on the subject and through the analysis of a Galenic passage so far remained in shadow. In De simplicium medicamentorum facultatibus V 25, K. XI 783,3 suggests to change the text printed by the editors, ἐξ ὄγκων ἀτόμων, into ἐξ ὄγκων ἀτόμων.
ΛΟΓΩΙ ΘΕΩΡΗΤΟΝ. IL PRINCIPIO DI ‘OSSERVABILITÀ TEORICA’ NELLA FILOSOFIA E NELLA SCIENZA GRECHE
The essay analyzes the occurrences, in ancient Greek texts, of the nexus λόγῳ (or διὰ λόγου) θεωρητόν, referring to entities that can be object of observation or speculation through the λόγος, as opposed to what is observable through sensation/perception (αἴσθησις). Attested with certainty for the first time in Epicurus’ Letter to Herodotus in con- nection with the theory of time, the concept, in later doxographers, is already connected to the physical theories of Democritus and Anaxagoras. Applied in various areas of ancient science anf philosophy, the principle of ‘theoretical observability’ (or ‘conceivability through logos’) will find a particularly fertile ground for development…
Recensione a Maria Giovanna Sandri, Trattati greci su barbarismo e solecismo, Berlin-Boston, De Gruyter 2020. Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica 2022/2
Recensione del volume di Maria Giovanna Sandri, che raccoglie i superstiti trattati greci su barbarismo e solecismo.