A study of the psychological ideas of Galen (AD 129-c.210, the most important medical writer in antiquity) and Stoicism (a major philosophical theory in the Hellenistic and Roman periods), which Galen discussed extensively. Christopher Gill argues that the two theories are complementary, and still of value to the modern reader.

Christopher Gill is Professor of Ancient Thought, University of Exeter

• 1: Introductory: Galen and Stoicism - Paradoxes and Potential


• 2: Galenic and Stoic Psychology: Two Versions of Naturalism


• 3: Psychology and the Body


• 4: Reason and Emotion: Parts and Wholes


• 5: The Therapy of Emotions


• 6: Galen and Stoicism: Paradoxes Revisited and Modern Parallels