Medicine and Paradoxography in the Ancient World

George Kazantzidis

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9783110660371
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110660470
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism
• Index: History

The present volume offers a systematic discussion of the complex relationship between medicine and paradoxography in the ancient world.
For a long time, the relationship between the two has been assumed to be virtually non-existent. Paradoxography is concerned with disclosing a world full of marvels and wondrous occurrences without providing an answer as to how these phenomena can be explained. Its main aim is to astonish and leave its readers bewildered and confused. By contrast, medicine is committed to the rational explanation of human phusis, which makes it, in a number of significant ways, incompatible with thauma. This volume moves beyond the binary opposition between 'rational' and 'non-rational' modes of thinking, by focusing on instances in which the paradox is construed with direct reference to established medical sources and beliefs or, inversely, on cases in which medical discourse allows space for wonder and admiration. Its aim is to show that thauma, rather than present a barrier, functions as a concept which effectively allows for the dialogue between medicine and paradoxography in the ancient world.

Index Locorum

• Achilles Tatius
• Leucippe and Clitophon
• 3.15; 5.7; 7.1–3 1 n.2
• Aelian
• De natura animalium
• 8.28 1
• 9.33 1
• Varia Historia
• 2.14 1 n.2
• Aelius Aristides
• Hieroi Logoi
• 1.61–3 1
• 4.15–18 1
• 4.38 1
• 4.50 1
• Orationes
• 39.14 1 with n.2, 3
• 42 1
• 42.8 1
• 42.11–13 1
• 47.73 1
• 53.1–5 1
• Aeschylus
• Agamemnon
• 1232–4 1 n.2
• [Prometheus vinctus]
• 235ff. 1
• Alexander of Aphrodisias
• In Aristotelis Topica comment.
• 1.8.62.30–63.19 (= fr.112 Rose) 1
• Anthologia Palatina
• 6.203 1
• 7.508 1
• 9.46 1
• 9.53 1
• 9.298 1
• 11.112 1
• 11.257 1
• Antigonus of Carystus
• Mirabilia
• 12 1
• 48 1 n.2
• 110 1
• 118 1
• 129 1
• Aristophanes
• Aves
• 603–5 1
• Aristotle
• De generatione animalium
• 728a17–20 1 n.2
• 738b19–22 1 n.2
• 767b5ff. 1 n.2
• 769b 1
• 769b31 1 n.2
• 775a 1 n.2
• 775a14–17 1 n.2
• [De mirabilibus auscultationibus]
• 31 1 n.2
• 32 1
• 61 1
• 66 1
• 147 1
• 152 1
• 166 1 n.2
• 167 1
• 174 1
• 175 1 n.2
• 178 1 n.2
• De partibus animalium
• 642a31–b4 1
• 645a15–24 1
• 645a17 1, 2
• 645a25–27 1 n.2, 3
• 645a29–30 1
• 650a 1 n.2
• De respiratione
• 466a–b 1 n.2
• De somniis
• 459b–460a 1
• Historia animalium
• 494b 1 n.2
• 581b1–2 1 n.2
• 637a23–5 1
• [Mechanica]
• 847a11–13 1
• 847a18–24 1 n.2
• Metaphysica
• 982b13–15 1 n.2, 3
• 983a12–21 1 with n.2
• 983a14 1
• [Problemata]
• 8.1 (888a31–38) 1
• 9.8 (890a36–b7) 1
• 10.5 (891a35–b3) 1
• 10.6 (891b4–13) 1
• 12.3 (906a36–b6) 1
• 16.1 (913a18–24) 1
• 22.2 (930a14–23) 1
• 22.3 (930a24) 1
• 23.32 (935a5–8) 1
• Topica
• 105a3–9 1
• Artemidorus
• Onirocritica
• 4.47 1
• Athenaeus
• 12.511d 1
• Aulus Gellius
• Noctes Atticae
• 9.4.15–16 1 n.2
• Callimachus
• Aetia
• Fr.75.53–5 Harder 1
• Chariton of Aphrodisias
• Callirhoe
• 1.4–5 1 n.2
• Cicero
• De natura deorum
• 1.105 1
• Democritus
• DK 68 B 172 1
• Dio Chrysostom
• Orationes
• 33.6 1 n.2
• Diodorus Siculus
• 32.10–11 1 n.2
• Diogenes Laertius
• 5.25 1
• Epidaurian iamata
• A1 Herzog 1, 2
• A5 Herzog 1
• A12 Herzog 1
• A15 Herzog 1
• A16 Herzog 1
• B23 Herzog 1
• B29 Herzog 1
• B35 Herzog 1
• Galen
• De anatomicis administrationibus
• 3.9 (2.393 K.) 1
• 7.4 (2.669 K.) 1
• De locis affectis
• 5.8 (8.361 K.) 1
• 5.8 (8.362 K.) 1
• 5.8 (8.363–4 K.) 1
• 5.8 (8.365 K.) 1
• 5.8 (8.366 K.) 1
• 6.5 (8.414 K.) 1
• De naturalibus facultatibus
• 3.15 (2.210–11 K.) 1
• De placitis Hippocratis et Platonis
• 2.4.29 (5.233 K.) 1 n.2
• De praenotione ad Epigenem
• 1.6 (14.601 K.) 1 n.2
• 1.11 (14.603–4 K.) 1
• 2.25 (14.612 K.) 1
• 3.4 (14.614 K.) 1
• 3.5 (14.614 K.) 1
• 3.16 (14.618 K.) 1
• 7.1 (14.635 K.) 1
• 7.14 (14.639 K.) 1
• 7.17 (14.640 K.) 1
• 8.1 (14.641 K.) 1 n.2, 3
• 10.18 (14.657 K.) 1
• 10.19–22 (14.656–7) 1
• 10.22–11.1 (14.657–8 K.) 1
• 11.8–9 (14.660 K.) 1
• 12.1 (14.661–2 K.) 1
• 12.10 (14.664 K.) 1
• 12.11 (14.665 K.) 1
• 13.5 (14.666 K.) 1
• 13.10 (14.668 K.) 1
• 14.1 (14.670 K.) 1
• 14.10 (14.673 K.) 1
• 14.11–12 (14.673 K.) 1
• De sanitate tuenda
• 1.8 (6.40–42 K.) 1
• De semine
• 1.4 (4.525 K.) 1
• 2.1 (4.596–7 K.) 1 n.2
• De usu partium
• 3.1–3 (3.169–71 K.) 1
• 3.10 (3.237–9 K.) 1
• 14.6 (4.158 K.) 1
• 14.6–7 (4.164–5 K.) 1
• De venesectione adversus Erasistratum
• 4 (11.158 K.) 1
• Heliodorus
• Aethiopica
• 1.30–31 1 n.2
• Heraclides of Pontus
• Fr. 89 and 90 Schütrumpf 1
• Heraclitus
• Incredibilia
• 5 1
• Hero of Alexandria
• Pneumatica
• 2.18–20 1
• Herodotus
• 1.32.6 1, 2
• 1.175 1
• 1.214 1
• 2.35 1
• 2.48 1
• 2.66.4 1
• 2.77 1
• 2.78 1
• 2.86–9 1
• 2.94 1
• 2.131 1 n.2
• 2.152 1 n.2
• 2.156 1 n.2
• 2.175.1–4 1
• 3.12 1
• 3.22.4 1
• 3.23 1
• 3.116 1 n.2
• 4.187.2–3 1
• 5.27 1
• 5.86.3 1
• 6.58 1
• 6.125 1
• 7.36 1
• 9.37 1
• Hesiod
• Opera et dies
• 109–120 1
• Hippocratic Corpus
• De articulis
• 42 (4.182 L.) 1
• De carnibus
• 19 (8.608–10 L.) 1 n.2
• De morbo sacro
• 1 (6.352–4 L.) 1, 2, 3
• De mulierum affectibus
• 1.6 (8.30 L.) 1 n.2
• De natura pueri
• 13 (7.490 L.) 1
• De virginum morbis
• 1 (8.466–71 L.) 1
• Epidemiae
• 5.81 (5.250 L.) 1
• 5.86 (5.252 L.) 1
• 6.8.32 (5.356 L.) 1, 2
• 7.89 (5.446 L.) 1 n.2
• Prognosticon
• 1 (2.110–12 L.) 1, 2
• Homer
• Iliad
• 18.373–7 1 n.2
• 18.417–20 1 n.2
• 18.478–608 1 n.2
• Lucian
• Zeuxis
• 6 1
• Lucretius
• 5.878–924 1
• Minucius Felix
• Octavius
• 20.3–4 1
• Nicander
• Alexipharmaca
• 209–16 1
• Theriaca
• 128–36 1
• 373–5 1
• 738–42 1
• 759–68 1
• 791–6 1
• 799–804 1
• 822–7 1
• 828–36 1
• Palaephatus
• Incredibilia
• 1 1
• Paul of Aegina
• Medical compendium
• 6.69 1
• Phlegon of Tralles
• Mirabilia
• 1 1
• 2 1
• 6.2–4 1
• 6–9 1
• 10 1
• 20–25 1, 2
• 26–27 1
• 29 1
• 34–35 1
• Photius
• Bibliotheca
• 377a–379a 1 n.2
• Plato
• Theaetetus
• 155d 1 n.2
• Pliny (the Elder)
• Naturalis Historia
• 7.32 1
• 7.36 1 n.2
• 7.63–4 1 n.2
• Plutarch
• Moralia
• 130A–D 1
• 520C 1
• Posidippus
• 97 A.–B. 1
• 98 A.–B. 1
• 99 A.–B. 1
• Ps.– Alexander of Aphrodisias
• Medical Puzzles and Natural Problems
• 1.Praef. 24–30 1
• 1.Praef.32–34 1 n.2
• 1.Praef.35–57 1
• 1.Praef.58–76 1
• 1.Praef.82–4 1 n.2
• 1.Praef. 93–96 1 n.2
• Scholia in Nicandri Theriaca
• 763a Crugnola 1 n.2
• Soranus of Ephesus
• Gynaecia
• 1.16 1 n.2
• Supplementum Hellenisticum (SH)
• 125 1
• 126 1 n.2
• 127 1 n.2
• 128 1 n.2
• 129.2–3 1
• 691 1
• Thucydides
• 1.76 1
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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Preface
• Contents
• Introduction. Medicine and Paradoxography in Dialogue: Approaching thauma across Science and Fiction
• Technological Wonder in Herodotus’ Histories
• Paradoxography and the pseudo-Aristotelian Problemata
• In the Realm of the Two-Headed Snake: Pragmatics and Aesthetics of Mirabilia in Nicander’s Theriaca and Alexipharmaca
• Wondrous Healings in Greek Epigrams (and their Parodic Counterparts)
• Beyond the Limits of the Human Body: Phlegon of Tralles’ Medical Curiosities
• Phlegon’s Paradoxical Physiology: Centaurs in the Peri Thaumasion
• Galen’s Language of Wonder: Thauma, Medicine and Philosophy in On Prognosis and On Affected Parts
• Literary Remedies and Rhetorical Prescriptions in Aelius Aristides: Medical Paradoxography or Common Practise?
• Unknowable Questions and Paradoxography in ps.-Alexander of Aphrodisias’ Medical Puzzles and Natural Problems
• List of Contributors
• Index Rerum et Nominum
• Index Locorum