[Sca-librarians] Fwd: [Carolingia] need help with finding English translation of Galen

[Solveig Throndardottir]

Noble Cousin!

Greetings from Solveig!

> Hi, all.
>
> So I've been having problems tracking down an English translation of
> Galen's work on the temperaments (in Greek: Peri Kraseon; in Latin: De
> Temperamenti).  If anyone knows of one, and can send me some info  
> (ISBN,
> edition, publisher, et al.) that I can hand off to a librarian, I  
> implore
> you please do so.  Thanks in advance.
>
> --Michael/Christian

There is the ancient Greek, a translation into Latin, and apparently  
a translation
into modern Greek that I could find. Maybe nobody has published an  
English
translation. Since you are in the Boston area, maybe you can find a  
starving
classics student at Harvard to help you out? If nothing else, why not  
ring up
the Harvard classics department or possibly the History of Medicine  
unit at
Harvard Medical and see if anyone knows whether there is a translation.

One of the most promising links at Harvard is:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html

Which links to a medieval text initiative.

Incidentally, another translation appears to be entitled: De  
complexionibus.

If you are interested in articles of Medieval Medicine and
not the description of using mirrors to sink ships, then
you might be interested in articles by Lyne Thorndyke who
discusses several sections of this work:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez? 
cmd=search&db=pubmed&term=THORNDIKE%20L%5Bau%5D&dispmax=50

Your Humble Servant
Solveig Throndardottir
Amateur Scholar



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