On melancholy / [manuscript] /
Rufus of Ephesus ; edited by Peter E. Pormann.
- T bingen : Mohr Siebeck, c2008.
- xv, 331 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Sapere ; Bd. 12 .
- Sapere (Darmstadt, Germany) ; Bd. 12. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-310) and indexes.
Social stress and political pressure : On melancholy in context / Simon Swain -- Rufus of Ephesus in the medical context of his time / Vivian Nutton -- Rufus' On melancholy and its philosophical background / Philip J. van der Eijk -- Melancholy in the medieval world : the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions / Peter E. Pormann -- D rer and Rufus : Melencolia I in the medical tradition / Peter-Klaus Schuster, Jr̲g Vl̲lnagel -- Rufus of Ephesus and the tradition of the melancholy thinker / Peter Toohey -- Rufus' legacy in the psychopathological literature of the (early) modern period / Thomas R tten.
Fragments in Arabic, Greek, and Latin with English translation; introduction, commentary, and essays in English.