Taking the aged character Nestor in the Iliad and Odyssey as an archetype of the traditional oral poet, examines the portrayal of him to reveal ancient Greek concepts of poetic memory, narrative authority, and the tension between tradition and individuality. Finds that oral narrative can become self

This volume is an edition of the Commentary by Stephanus of Athens, the seventh-century physician and philosopher, on book One of Galen's Therapeutics to Glaucon. It comprises introduction, Greek text with critical apparatus and index of sources, English translation, notes, bibliography, and index. As one of the few medical texts to date from this period, and one of the most detailed and complete, the commentary sheds important light on the nature and extent of medical education in the West, on the eve of the Arab conquest.