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MEDICINE AND PHILOSOPHY IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY 
This work makes available for the first time in one dedicated volumePhilip van der Eijk’s selected papers on the close connections that ex-istedbetweenmedicineandphilosophythroughoutantiquity.Medicalauthors such as the Hippocratic writers, Diocles, Galen, Soranus andCaeliusAurelianuselaboratedonphilosophicalmethodssuchascausalexplanation,definitionanddivision,applyingconceptssuchastheno-tion of nature to their understanding of the human body. Similarly,philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle were highly valued for theircontributions to medicine. This interaction was particularly strikinginthestudyofthehumansoulinrelationtothebody,asillustratedby approaches to topics such as intellect, sleep and dreams, and diet anddrugs. With a detailed introduction surveying the subject as a wholeand a new chapter on Aristotle’s treatment of sleep and dreams, this wide-ranging collection is essential reading for students and scholarsof ancient philosophy and science.
p h i l i p j . v a n d e r e i j k 
is Professor of Greek at the Uni-versity of Newcastle upon Tyne. He has published widely on an-cient philosophy, medicine and science, comparative literature andpatristics. He is the author of 
Aristoteles 
.
De insomniis 
.
De divinatione  persomnum
(Berlin:AkademieVerlag,
1994
)andof 
DioclesofCarystus 
.
 A Collection of the Fragments with Translation and Commentary 
(
2
vols.,Leiden:Brill,
2000
–
1
).Hehaseditedandco-authored
 Ancient Histories of Medicine. Essays in Medical Doxography and Historiogra- phy in Classical Antiquity 
(Leiden: Brill,
1999
) and co-edited
Ancient  MedicineinitsSocio-CulturalContext 
(
2
vols.,AmsterdamandAtlanta:Rodopi,
1995
).
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