The still unrivalled 1821-33 edition of the complete works of Galen, the most famous physician of the Greco-Roman world.

The still unrivalled 1821-33 edition of the complete works of Galen, the most famous physician of the Greco-Roman world.

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the corpus of the second-century AD Greek physician Galen of

Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129 - ca. 216) began his remarkable career tending to wounded gladiators in provincial Asia Minor. Later in life he achieved great disti

Galen of Pergamon, was a prominent Roman physician, surgeon and philosopher. The most accomplished of all medical researchers of antiquity, Galen contributed gr