HIST 449 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Know Thyself, Asclepeion, Techne
9 Jun 2018
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HIST 449- Mar 22
Regimen continued and the Cult of Asclepius
Part 1: Regimen Continued, Proper comportment
Galens dietetics cont.
• Foods have temperaments and qualities which have to be matched to
individual
• Plethora is overeating
• If you overeat you strain the vanus system
Plutarch and Galen
• Dialogue between Moschion and Zeusippus, about a bad tempered doctor
named Galucus, who insisted that philosophers should not presume to know
what doctors know
• Regimen should not interfere with social graces
• You shouldn’t be embarrassed about spending a day in bed
• You shouldn’t be a health freak
• Excessive attention to regimen is undignified and unmanly
• Spends a lot of time on proper regimen on scholars and intellectuals
• Speaking is exercise
• So is reading
• Debate is a kind of wrestling
• Eat light and preferably vegetarian
• After dinner conversation shuld be on light topics such as science, history
and poetry
• In antiquity, you would always read aloud
• Debate gets your adrenaline up and is about competition
• Reasoning faculty is kindled fron light and plain substance
• Meat should be a prop and a little extra in your meal, meat makes you dumb
• You should not talk about logic at the dinner table
• Know thyself, you should know how to take your own pulse and take your
own temperature
• Do not be dependent on doctors
• Autonomy, the individual should know themselves and should act for
themselves
Part 2: the cult of Asclepius
Asclepius
• Only god exclusively devoted to medicine
• Only depicted as a doctor
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