On melancholy / Rufus of Ephesus ; edited by Peter E. Pormann.

On melancholy. Polyglot

Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2008], ©2008.

xv, 331 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Text and translation / Peter E. Pormann -- Commentary / Peter E. Pormann -- Social stress and political pressure : On melancholy in context / Simon Swain -- The medical world of Rufus of Ephesus / Vivian Nutton -- Rufus' On melancholy and its pholosophical background / Philip J. van der Eijk -- Melancholy in the medieval world : the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions / Peter E. Pormann -- Dürer and Rufus : Melencolia I in the medical tradition / Peter-Klaus Schuster, Jörg Völlnagel -- Rufus of Ephesus and the tradition of the melancholy thinker / Peter Toohey -- Rufus' legacy in the psychopathological literature of the (early) modern period / Thomas Rütten -- Greek text, and Arabic and English translations of Galen's On the affected parts iii. 9-10 / Philip J. van der Eijk, Peter E. Pormann -- Isḥāq ibm ʻImrān on scholarly melancholy / Peter E. Pormann -- Melancholy in ar-Rāzī's Book of experiences / Peter E. Pormann.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-310) and indexes.

Fragments in Arabic, Greek, and Latin with English translation; introduction, commentary, and essays in English.