1. Arabic Περὶ Ἀλυπίας: Did al-Kindî and Râzî Read Galen?
- Author
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Antoine Pietrobelli, Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Modèles Esthétiques et Littéraires - EA 3311 (CRIMEL), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Maison des Sciences Humaines de Champagne-Ardenne (MSH-URCA), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA), and Petit, Caroline
- Subjects
Literature ,Médecine grecque et romaine ,Galien Claude (0131?-0201?) ,business.industry ,Arabic ,Philosophy ,Peri Alupias ,language.human_language ,Galien Claude (0131?-0201?). De indolentia ,Rāzī ,Galen ,language ,business ,[SHS.CLASS]Humanities and Social Sciences/Classical studies ,al-Kindī - Abstract
International audience; Arabic literature counts up several texts dealing with dispelling sorrow or avoiding grief. Before the discovery of Galen’s Peri Alupias, some of the editors or commentators of such Arabic treatises used to hypothesize that Galen’s treatise could be an influential model. This paper aims to offer a reappraisal of the question, focusing on two Arabic texts: On dispelling Sorrow of Al-Kindî and chapter 12 of Râzî’s Spiritual Medicine. Can we trace hints of Galen’s Peri alupias in their respective texts? The study investigates firstly the formal filiations we can draw between Galen and both Arabic authors and secondly it emphasizes the inheritance or the rejection of the Galenic technê alupias by al-Kindî and Râzî.
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- 2018