Editorial for Rosetta Journal Issue 13.
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Articles
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Galen of Pergamum (AD 129-c. 200/c. 216), one of the most important physicians of the Roman nobility during the Second Sophistic, recombined the teachings of great medical scientists and philosophers such as Hippocrates, Plato and Aristotle. With such an eclectic stance, he was not just able to obtain an independent position in medical and philosophical discourses of his time, but also to create an innovative paradigm to understand and cure diseases of the human soul. Thus, the physician could react to one of the great existential challenges to human life by analysing the ancient concept of the soul and examining how the immaterial mind was related and connected to the material body. Thus, Galen set up a catalogue of norms and measures to respond to mental dysfunctions inflicted by (1) bodily disorder, (2) emotional disequilibrium and (3) neurotic affections, so called fixed ideas.
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The purpose of this study is to explore the representation of old age throughout the extant Euripidean plays, providing an overview of significant aspects relating to the dramatic function of the old characters within diverse tragic plots and focussing on self-reflective scenes of aged heroes. On closer examination the geras-scenes reveal that the elderly wish to escape the reality of ageing either by recalling their lost youth in the past, by forgetting the misery of great age through a religious ecstatic experience in the present or even by anticipating their death in the future.
The subject of this discussion is one of the tiniest parts of the male body: the testicle. What did the ancient Greeks and Romans make of it? How was its vascular system described? Did they grasp its role in the reproduction process and its place in the body in the same way as we do today? What consequences would an ancient male have expected if it was taken away?
These are questions raised by two sections in the work of the Latin medical writer Celsus, passages that play a crucial part in the ancient history of castration.
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Book Reviews
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Notes and Shorter Pieces
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