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Lecture 3 - Healing the Body: Galen
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Galen (129 - to c.205 AD) was from the city of Pergamum in Asia Minor. Once he had decided to be a doctor he travelled widely in search of learning before returning to Pergamum to patch up wounded gladiators. Arrogant and ambitious, he makes his way to the competitive atmosphere of Rome where through sheer persistence he ends up serving the imperial family. Applying philosophical principles to his practice, he left a vast array of writings. These became authoritative and Galenic medicine was prominent in the Renaissance and even beyond. Yet his authority was gradually eroded by scholars such as Vesalius who spotted the inaccuracies in his dissections. Fierce battles over his authority followed.
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Charles Freeman has been nosing his way around the Mediterranean since 1966 when he dug on a Roman villa near Naples and 1968 when he worked at the city of Knidos in southern Turkey. His many books include Egypt, Greece and Rome, Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean (OUP), now in its third edition, The Horses of St. Marks (their history over 2,000 years) and Holy Bones, Holy Dust (Yale UP), a study of medieval relic cults. He is Historical Consultant to the Blue Guides writing the introductions to several volumes and Sites of Antiquity, Fifty Sites That Explain the Classical World, most of the sites ones that he has visited. He is recently wrote ‘The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind, 500- 1700’, which was published by Head of Zeus in April 2020.
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