A Hymn to Nature: Structure, Function, Design and Beauty in Galen’s Biology

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Poikile Physis: A Short Introduction 1
4. A Question of Breeding? Aelian, Aristotle, And Alexander In India (NA 8.1) 13
5. Animal Exemplarity in Imperial Greek Prose 33
6. “A Small Mirror of Greater and Nobler Enterprises” – Ants in Greek Imperial Literature 53
7. Biology Between Scientific Education and Ethical Paraenesis: The Physiologus 73
8. Biology and Theology: Zoological Systematics in Basil of Caesarea’s Hexaemeron 101
9. Aelian’s Fabulous Trees 115
10. Galen as Phytotomist – His Study on the Fruit of Citrus Medica L. 131
11. A Hymn to Nature: Structure, Function, Design and Beauty in Galen’s Biology 145
12. Biological Metaphor and Cosmology The Rejection of Plato’s Artificialism by the Middle Platonists and Plotinus 167
13. Biology and Life in Plotinus’ Philosophy 183
14. Notes on Contributors 199
15. Index locorum 201
16. Index rerum 211
17. Index codicum 217