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Seller's Description:
Very Good. Size: 8x5x0; [Interesting provenance, previously owned by Dr. Owsei Temkin. ] Hardcover and dust jacket. Jacket differs from pictured. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Small tears to jacket. Bookplate of Temkin on verso. Clean, unmarked pages. x, 140 pages; 23 cm. "The present work is a full scale analysis, the first ever to be done wholly in historical terms, of the Greek cultural renaissance of the second and third centuries A.D." "Owsei Temkin was a director of the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Temkin was known as one of the world's foremost experts on the interaction of medicine and culture throughout history. He published hundreds of articles and a dozen books on the history of medicine, including the history and philosophy of Greco-Arabic medicine. His book, The Falling Sickness, a study of views on epilepsy through the ages, has achieved wide renown. Temkin received the Welch Medal and the Sarton Prize and was elected to the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences."-Johns Hopkins Medical Institute.
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Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 019814279X. Very minor shelfwear to book. Minor browning to DJ spine. Light edgewear to DJ.; Contents: I. The Biographer Of The Sophists; II. Cities Of The Sophists; III. Special Privileges; IV. Sophists And Emperors; V. The Prestige Of Galen; VI. Roman Friends; VII. Professional Quarrels; VIII. The Circle Of Julia Domna; IX. Other Literary Men; Appendixes: 1. The Silent Secundus 2. Polemo's Journey With Hadrian 3. The Date Of Fronto's Death; 152 pages; Places the sophistic movement as a whole within the history of the Roman empire.
