'Greek' and 'Roman' in Latin medical texts : studies in cultural change and exchange in ancient medicine / edited by Brigitte Maire.

Leiden : Brill, [2014]

x, 451 pages ; 25 cm.

Greek and Roman patients under Galen's gaze : a doctor at the crossroads of two cultures / Veronique Boudon-Millot -- "Memorial" strategies of court physicians in the imperial period / Sebastien Barbara -- The identity, legal status and origin of the Roman army's medical staff in the imperial age / Pascal Bader -- Pneumatism in Seneca : an example of interaction between physics and medicine / Frederic Le Blay -- References to medical authors in non-medical Latin literature / Innocenzo Mazzini -- At the crossroads of Greek and Roman medicine : the contribution of Latin papyri / Marie-Helene Marganne and Magali de Haro Sanchez -- Calcidius, witness to Greek medical theories : eye anatomy and pathology / Beatrice Bakhouche -- Physical pain in Celsus' On medicine / Aurelien Gautherie -- The pharmacological treatise of Juba II, King of Mauretania / Antoine Pietrobelli -- "As a matter of fact, this is not difficult to understand!" : the addresses to the reader in Greek and Latin pharmacological poetry / Svetlana Hautala -- Magical formulas in Pliny's natural history : origins, sources, parallels / Patricia Gaillard-Seux -- On analgesic and narcotic plants : Pliny and his Greek sources, the history of a complex graft / Valerie Bonet -- Collyrium names attested on stone tablets : the example of the Helvetian corpus / Muriel Pardon-Labonnelie -- The meaning and etymology of the adjective apiosus / Vincenzo Ortoleva -- The Latin and Greek tradition of the corpus oribasianum / Serena Buzzi and Federico Messina -- Galen of Pergamum : a witness of Scribonius Largus' ouvre / Alessia Guardasole -- Greek medicine in Scribonius Largus' compositiones / Sergio Sconocchia -- The ancient Latin commentary on the Hippocratic aphorisms on the threshold of the twelfth century / Manuel E. Vazquez Bujan -- On terminological variation in the late Latin translation of the Hippocratic aphorisms / Gerd V.M. Haverling -- From Cassius Felix to Tereoperica : new considerations on indirect tradition / Laura Lopez Figueroa -- The author of Book 10 of the Mulomedicina chironis and its Greek and Latin sources / Valerie Gitton Ripoll.

Includes bibliographical references and index.