Galen's Treatise Περὶ Ἀλυπίας (De indolentia) in Context

Caroline Petit, Ph.D. (2004), Université Paris-Sorbonne, is Assistant Professor of Classics and the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick. She has published extensively on Galen, the Galenic corpus, and their transmission and reception.

Introduction: A Long Lost Text: Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας

 Caroline Petit



1 Note on Ms. Vlatadon 14: A Summary of the Main Findings and Problems

 P. N. Singer



Part 1: Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and Galen’s Oeuvre

2 Death, Posterity and the Vulnerable Self: Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας in the Context of His Late Writings

 Caroline Petit



3 Galen and the Language of Old Comedy: Glimpses of a Lost Treatise at Ind. 23b–28

 Amy Coker



4 New Light And Old Texts: Galen On His Own Books

 P. N. Singer



Part 2: Galen’s Distress: Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and the Philosophical Tradition

5 Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας as Philosophical Therapy: How Coherent is it?

 Christopher Gill



6 Galen and the Sceptics (and the Epicureans) on the Unavoidability of Distress

 R. J. Hankinson



7 A New Distress: Galen’s Ethics In Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and Beyond

 P. N. Singer



8 Wisdom and Emotion: Galen’s Philosophical Position in Avoiding Distress

 Teun Tieleman



Part 3: Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας and the History of the Roman Empire

9 Galen and the Plague

 Rebecca Flemming



10 Galen and the Last Days of Commodus

 Matthew Nicholls



Epilogue: The Lost Readership of Galen’s Περὶ Ἀλυπίας

11 Arabic Peri Alupias: Did al-Kindî and Râzî Read Galen?

 Antoine Pietrobelli