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[ SOLD OUT ] MIGLIORINI, Paola, Scienza e terminologia medica nella letteratrua latina di età neroniana. Seneca, Lucano, Persio, Petronio. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main (...), 1997. 229p. Paperback. Nice copy. ‘This is a careful study of medicine as revealed in four authors writing in the 50s and 60 AD. Seneca and his nephew Lucan, Persius and Petronius. It shows how all four were familiar with medical ideas and integrated them in different ways into their works, whether moralising tracts, satires or epic poetry. Seneca in particular was widely acquainted with all aspects of medicine, although his amusing vignette of live above a gymnasium here loses much in the telling. But, while one can admire the author’s detailed exposition, none of her findings are really new, and a two page conclusion to a work of two hundred pages suggests that the book’s contribution to anything wider is limited.’ (Review in MEDICAL HISTORY, 1999, p.282). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. (Antiquarian) (approx. delivery time: undeliverable) ISBN: 9783631312292