Pliny and Galen respond to love elegy

Written by on May 6, 2012 to economics of attention

Pliny and Galen put love elegy into prose: Pliny, to model the behavior of an ideal wife; Galen, to dismiss it and offer a healthier prescription.


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Hanayn ibn Ishaq: disciple of Jesus and Galen

Written by on April 22, 2012 to economics of attention

Providing respectable testimony to the relation of Jesus and Galen may helped to motivate the writing of Hunayn’s autobiographical epistle.


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ancient arguments about the origin of medicine

Written by on April 15, 2012 to economics of attention

Ancient arguments over the creation of the heavens and the earth set the pattern for ancient arguments about the origin of medicine.


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progress in indecency regulation

Written by on February 19, 2012 to law 'n action

Indecency regulation is far more effective and less intrusive than many persons appreciate.


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books, reading, and writing in second-century Rome

Written by on February 12, 2012 to industry structure

Books in second century Rome existed in codex form, were collected in numerous personal libraries and large public libraries, and were highly valued.


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Galen and Paul against the Epicureans

Written by on January 29, 2012 to big ideas

Galen and Paul criticized the Epicureans and led passionate, tumultuous lives radically different in substance, but similar in form.


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changes in forms of interpersonal competition over millennia

Written by on January 22, 2012 to social networks

Reasoning, drinking, and patronage structure interpersonal symbolic competition across a Galenic saying’s literary-historical arc.


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God’s poetic effects according to Galen and Longinus

Written by on January 16, 2012 to big ideas

Although disagreeing about the merits of Genesis, Galen and Longinus had a similar grand project of seeking to direct praise for created beauty.


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Galen dominates Greeks in Ibn Abi Usaibia’s History of Physicians

Written by on January 16, 2012 to social networks

In the thirteen century Islamic world, Galen had far more influence in the highly valued practice of medicine than did Aristotle or any other Greek figure.


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