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Herophilus and Erasistratus on the hēgemonikon
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Cambridge University Press via the DOI in this record.In Alexandria at some point in the early third century bc, Herophilus of Chalcedon identified the nerves as a distinct system within the body, traced their origins to the brain, and recognised their role in transmitting sensation and voluntary motion. His discovery was based on dissection and vivisection, not only of animals, but also of human beings. Herophilus’ younger contemporary Erasistratus also integrated these findings into his rather bolder physiology. The implications of this discovery were of course wide-ranging. From a modern perspective, it is now widely celebrated as having established, for the first time on something like a scientific basis, that the brain has more or less the functions that we now ascribe to it. Likewise, in antiquity, Galen relied heavily on Herophilus’ discovery in his proof that the rational soul is located in the brain. As we shall see, it also had an impact on Stoic psychology. What exactly Herophilus and Erasistratus saw as its implications, however, is a different question, and the difficulties in answering it are considerable given the state of the evidence
Remarques sur les papyrus de Magdola
Crönert Wilhelm. Remarques sur les papyrus de Magdola. In: Revue des Études Grecques, tome 16, fascicule 70,1903. pp. 193-197
Notes sur les papyrus Th. Reinach
Crönert Wilhelm. Notes sur les papyrus Th. Reinach. In: Revue des Études Grecques, tome 20, fascicule 89,1907. pp. 358-363
Die Logika Zētēmata des Chrysippos : Und die uebrigen Papyri logischen Inhalts aus der Herculanensischen Bibliothek
Der Codex 2773 miscellaneus Graecus der GroĂźherzoglichen Hofbibliothek zu Darmstadt : ein Beitrag zur griechischen Excerpten-Litteratur
Théophraste Caractères. Texte établi par Octave Navarre. (Collection Budé). Pp. 75. Paris: 1920. Fr. 5. [Introduction and text with critical footnotes.] - Théophraste Caractères. Traduction par O.N. [same series, place, date, and price, with the same introduction and with explanatory footnotes]. - Teofrasto I Caratteri. A cura di Giorgio Pasquali. (Biblioteca di Classici Greci diretta da Nicola Festa). Pp. xii + 73. Firenze: 1919. L. 2.50. [Introduction, text, and translation with explanatory footnotes].
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