Canadian bulletin of medical history = Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la médecine, 1990
The death in February 1699 of the Electoral Prince of Bavaria, Joseph Ferdinand (1692-1699), shor... more The death in February 1699 of the Electoral Prince of Bavaria, Joseph Ferdinand (1692-1699), shortly after he had been recognized as the heir to the throne of Spain, led to the War of the Spanish Succession. His death was unexpected and not fully understood; later observers believed that he was poisoned. His illness and death were in fact fully described by his physician, Carlo Ferdinando Vacchieri, in a Latin manuscript which is now in Paris. Vacchieri's text, which is here translated in full, makes a diagnosis of the Prince's illness possible. Comparison of Vacchieri's observations with contemporary and modern accounts of infectious diseases suggests a diagnosis of typhoid fever. Vacchieri's treatment is considered in the light of contemporary medical theory (iatrochemistry) and practice, and modern treatment of the disease
Lucius at Corinth
Phoenix, 1971
... HJ MASON ... connected Demetrius, the famous Cynic of the first century AD, with the city.21 ... more ... HJ MASON ... connected Demetrius, the famous Cynic of the first century AD, with the city.21 Since this is one of the few passages of sustained satire in the Metamorphoses22 and takes place in Corinth, it is possible that Apuleius is using it, at least in part, as a reference to the ...
... regard to the second point, a reference to a proconsul is called for in section 97 only to ex... more ... regard to the second point, a reference to a proconsul is called for in section 97 only to explain Behr's own restoration of the name Festus. ... 152 was attending some other relative when he accepted such a post in Asia.21 The most plausible relative would be an uncle, a younger ...
This article attempts to find a context in 2nd-century Lesbos for the dedication by Longus' narra... more This article attempts to find a context in 2nd-century Lesbos for the dedication by Longus' narrator, self-identified as a hunter, to the Nymphs, Pan and Eros.
Ancient Narrative, Supplementum 5: 186-195. Groningen., 2006
The setting of Daphnis and Chloe is the “real” island located around the coordinates 39o N and 26... more The setting of Daphnis and Chloe is the “real” island located around the coordinates 39o N and 26o E; but this paper asserts that “Lesbos” was also a place of the imagination as significant as the “Thebes” of Athenian tragedy (Zeitlin 1990), or the “Arcadia” of pastoral. This can be seen in Catullus’ choice (poem 51) of the pseudonym Lesbia for his lover, of whom Havelock claimed (1967, 130), that the “aura of Lesbos was round her head.” This “aura” recalled principally the island’s status as πασέων ἀοιδοτάτη, where the nightingale always sings sweetest (Phanokles 1, 22 as cited in Powell 1925, 107), and poetry and music have been especially at home since the arrival of the head and lyre of Orpheus. Within the realm of ancient fiction, the same aura informs the portrayal of the island in King Apollonius of Tyre (33-47), in the Mytileneans’ appreciation of Tarsia for her lyre-playing, education, and singing, which enables her to escape degradation in the brothel and leads to her integration with her father. In Longus, Lesbos’ role as the home of poetry and song is emphasised in examples of the “Orpheus-like” control of the physical world by music and poetry.
In Marilia P. Futre Pinheiro, Stephen J. Harrison, eds., Fictional Traces: Receptions of the Ancient Novel, Volume 2 (Ancient Narrative, Supplementum 14.2), 3-18.Groningen: Barkhuis Publishing and Groningen University Library. , 2011
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