Grammar as Interpretation

Sicking,; Slings,; Stork,; Eijk, Philip J. van der; Kahane,; Pfeijffer,; Victor, ..; Dik, Helma; Wakker, Gerry

doi:10.1163/9789004330061

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“…von Staden (1994) has looked at the diverse uses of the authorial ego in Celsus’ On Medicine (1st century AD). 2 van der Eijk (1997a) has examined various ‘rhetorical strategies’, including the use of the first and second person (pp. 115–119), deployed by Hippocratic writers and Aristotle (fifth and fourth centuries BC).…”

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confidence: 99%

And to end on a poetic note: Galen’s authorial strategies in the pharmacological books

Totelin

2012

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

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This paper examines the authorial strategies deployed by Galen in his two main pharmacological treatises devoted to compound remedies: Composition of Medicines according to Types and Composition of Medicines according to Places. Some of Galen’s methods of self assertion (use of the first person; writing of prefaces) are conventional. Others have not received much attention from scholars. Thus, here, I examine Galen’s borrowing of his sources’ ‘I’; his use of the phrase ‘in these words’; and his recourse to Damocrates’ verse to conclude pharmacological books. I argue that Galen’s authorial persona is very different from that of the modern author as defined by Roland Barthes. Galen imitates and impersonates his pharmacological sources. This re-enactment becomes a way to gain experience (peira) of remedies and guarantees their efficacy.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%