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  2. Galen - Wikipedia

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    Galen's Greek name Γαληνός (Galēnós) comes from the adjective γαληνός (galēnós) 'calm'. [28] Galen's Latin name (Aelius or Claudius) implies he had Roman citizenship. [29] Galen describes his early life in On the affections of the mind. He was born in September 129 AD. [6]

  3. Galenic corpus - Wikipedia

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    The Galenic corpus is the collection of writings of Galen, a prominent Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire during the second century CE. Several of the works were written between 165–175 CE.

  4. Peri Alypias - Wikipedia

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    Galen's work was likely written in the early months of AD 193, after the death of the emperor Commodus, as Peri Alypias includes critical remarks around his reign. [8] Letter writing was a conventional form in antiquity for works that addressed the "therapy of emotions", as followed by Plutarch and Seneca.

  5. Music of ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of a Roman animal sacrifice. Music was an important aspect of Roman religious rituals. [13] It was used to set the rhythm of the ritual and invoke certain emotions. [14] Various instruments had different roles in Roman religion. Ancient Roman art displays tibicines, or players of the tibia, playing behind altars. [15]

  6. Ancient Greek medicine - Wikipedia

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    Galen’s extensive body of work, originally written in Greek, provided a foundation for the preservation of medical knowledge that would later be translated into Latin. These translations facilitated the enduring legacy of Greek medical ideas in Roman and, ultimately, in Western medical traditions. [48]

  7. Criton of Heraclea - Wikipedia

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    Criton of Heraclea (Greek: Κρίτων, Latin: Titus Statilius Crito) was a 2nd-century (c. 100 AD) Greek chief physician and procurator of Roman Emperor Trajan (98–117) in the campaign in Dacia. [1] He is perhaps the Criton mentioned in Martial's Epigrams. [2]

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  9. Galen (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Galen Center, an athletic facility in Los Angeles, California, United States; Galen Partners, an American healthcare-focused equity investment firm; Galen Institute, a health policy think tank in Alexandria, Virginia; Galen, a fictitious town in the novel The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll; Galen Framework, a software testing framework