Rufus, of Ephesus.

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.

9783161497605 (hpb) 9783161497599 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2009378552

101492078 DNLM 990658120 GyFmDB


Rufus, of Ephesus. On melancholy.


Melancholy--Early works to 1800.
Medicine, Greek and Roman.
Mental Disorders.

RC537 / .R8412 2008

2008 N-715 WZ 294 / R927r 2008