Galen ad multos annos

This paper focuses on demonstrating the weakness of the traditional date for Galen's death. It shows that there are good grounds fkom both within the Galenic Corpus and outside it for thinking that he lived at least until he was eighty. Information from Byzantine and Arab scholars from the sixt...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Nutton, Vivian
Format: article
Publication Date:1995
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repository:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:34012
Online Access:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/34012
Access Level:Open access
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Summary:This paper focuses on demonstrating the weakness of the traditional date for Galen's death. It shows that there are good grounds fkom both within the Galenic Corpus and outside it for thinking that he lived at least until he was eighty. Information from Byzantine and Arab scholars from the sixth century onwards suggests that he had died in the reign of Caracalla, perhaps in 216.