Contents

Acknowledgments

Primary Texts and Abbreviations

Introduction. Disease Classification and Mental Illness: Ancient and Modern Perspectives

Part 1 Broader Reflections on Mental Illness: Medical Theories in Their Socio-intellectual Context

1 Between Insanity and Wisdom: Perceptions of Melancholy in the Ps.-Hippocratic Letters 10–17

2 “Not a Daimōn, but a Severe Illness”: Oribasius, Posidonius and Later Ancient Perspectives on Superhuman Agents Causing Disease

Part 2 Individual Authors and Themes

3 Athenaeus of Attalia on the Psychological Causes of Bodily Health

4 Archigenes of Apamea’s Treatment of Mental Diseases

5 Mental Perceptions and Pathology in the Work of Rufus of Ephesus

6 Mental Disorders and Psychological Suffering in Galen’s Cases

7 Galen on Memory, Forgetting and Memory Loss

8 Stomachikon, Hydrophobia and Other Eating Disturbances: Volition and Taste in Late-Antique Medical Discussions

9 “A Most Acute, Disgusting and Indecent Disease”: Satyriasis and Sexual Disorders in Ancient Medicine

10 Mental Derangement in Methodist Nosography: What Caelius Aurelianus Had to Say

11 Mental Illnesses in the Medical Compilations of Late Antiquity: The Case of Aëtius of Amida

Part 3 Philosophy and Mental Illness

12 Making the Distinction: The Stoic View of Mental Illness

13 Philosophical Psychological Therapy: Did It Have Any Impact on Medical Practice?

14 Galen’s Pathological Soul: Diagnosis and Therapy in Ethical and Medical Texts and Contexts

Bibliography

Index Locorum

General Index