On Theriac to Piso, Attributed to Galen: A Critical Edition With Translation and Commentary (Studies in Ancient Medicine, 47) (English and Ancient Greek Edition)

Robert Leigh offers a critical edition with translation into English, commentary and introduction of the pharmacological treatise On Theriac to Piso traditionally attributed to Galen, and reviews the evidence as to the validity of the attribution to Galen. Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Conspectus siglorum 8 Introduction 11 The Text 11 The Manuscripts 11 The Arabic Text 15 The Latin Translations 16 The Andromachus Poem 17 The Treatise 18 Structure and Content 18 Date 21 Authenticity 29 a. Self-presentation 30 b. History 30 c. Julius Africanus Cesti 32 d. Doctrine—Pharmacology 34 e. Doctrine—Hippocrates 43 f. Doctrine—hilosophy—Asclepiades 49 g. Doctrine—hilosophy—‭λόγος‬ and ‭πει̃ρα‬ 53 h. Style and Language 55 i. Stylistic Features 62 j. Word Frequencies 63 k. Rare Words 70 Conclusions on Authenticity 71 Note on Chapter Headings 72 Text and Translation 75 Commentary 175 Appendices 265 Bibliography 322 Index Locorum 326 General Index 334 Index of Significant Greek Terms 336 Robert Leigh offers a critical edition with translation into English, commentary and introduction of the pharmacological treatise On Theriac to Piso traditionally attributed to Galen. The focus of the work is on the question of authorship and Leigh seeks to show on textual, pharmacological, doctrinal and historical grounds that the attribution to Galen is at least highly problematic and probably mistaken. As well as marshalling the arguments in the introduction, Leigh seeks in the commentary not only to give a general exegesis of the text but also to identify points of agreement and points of difference between the treatise and other works which are undisputedly in the genuine Galenic corpus.