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Using the hints from authors as widely-spaced in time as Homer (perhaps seventh century BCE) and Stobaeus (fifth century CE), he attempts the difficult task of giving shape to narratives that are only alluded to by the ancient authors, who had no need to spell out all the details that were familiar enough to their audiences.
- Keith Matthews
- 2003
Dec 4, 2023 · ‘Keith Andrew, born and trained in London, found in Anglesey an island that appealed to his contemplative nature and provided him with the subject matter that reflects it….. The island, with its mysterious heartland, is not his only source of inspiration.
He senses its antiquity and its intimacy, and has the intelligence to allow it to dictate the creation of his pictures and never imposes himself upon it. Keith Andrew is moved by the little things; by the narrow stream, by the broken window, the grouting of an ancient roof or by the lichen on an island wall.
His main contention is that the quest for a systematic theory is self-defeating because it disregards two guiding principles of Galen’s approach: first, there is his bid to present his doctrine as originated by Hippocrates and accepted by a line of good physicians and philosophers leading up to himself.
- Teun Tieleman
- 2020
Dec 4, 2003 · In his introductory chapter, Approaching the Hellenistic World, the editor, Andrew Erskine, surveys the evidence available for the narrative reconstructions and thematic discussions that follow.
Apr 12, 2021 · Purely intellectualist explanations of magic’s ‘decline’ look even more out of touch in light of the dozens of new studies that cumulatively suggest that, if we look beyond the world of the learned elite, the paradigm of decline collapses.
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itself as the epistemic centre of the world, and this book helps us understand how it came to that. Zoltan Biedermann´ University College London, UK doi:10.1017/mdh.2019.70 Keith Andrew Stewart, Galen’s Theory of Black Bile: Hippocratic Tradition, Manipulation, Innovation, Studies in Ancient Medicine, vol. 51 (Leiden: Brill, 2018),
