Body, Soul, and Nerves: Epicurus, Herophilus, Erasistratus, the Stoics, and Galen

Heinrich von Staden

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Abstract It is striking that polarities such as corporeal-incorporeal, mortal immortal, matter-form, transient-eternal, and generated-ungenerated—all of which are deployed to draw lines of demarcation between body and soul from the classical period to later antiquity—are not central to the more influential early Hellenistic theories of body and soul. Despite their radically divergent versions of the world and of human beings, Epicurus, many Stoics, and the more significant early Hellenistic physicians share a constellation of convictions concerning soul and body which is not receptive to boundary lines of such a kind (even if some features of their beliefs continue to resonate with those of their precursors).

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