... Visigothic rule. In the early sixth century, the Visigothic nobility was still governed by its own “Germanic” legal tradition. 5 © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 Roman law Visigothic code ancient medicine The legal and genealogical study of Visigothic medici...

..., including the fundamental issue of defining good health. Ancient Medicine Sexual Abstinence Greco-Roman Athletics Asceticism Metaphor Athletic metaphors appear with some frequency in early Christian literature, especially in contexts relating to martyrdom and asceticism. Metaphors...

... Anthropology Conceptual Metaphors Moral Foundations Ancient Medicine Ancient Philosophy In the title to the 2016 exhibition The Soul is an Octopus , curated at the Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, the centrality of metaphor to ancient ways of conceiving of the body and life...

... for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2018 Theodoret of Cyrrhus Ancient Medicine Brain Marrow Aqueduct Metaphor Like jokes, metaphors rely upon shared...

..., and pharmacology as a needlessly complex analogy. The second sees an embarrassing strand of physicalism in the Cappadocian's liturgical theology. This sprawling and complex set of concerns surrounding the concept of krasis in ancient medicine should prompt a more thorough reconsideration of its function...

...=reprints . 2018 Clement of Alexandria Ancient Medicine Vision Epistemology Baptism Metaphor Matthew Chalmers, for example, has grounded his exploration of medical terminology in Clement's writings in the revivification of the work of Herophilus and Eristratus in the second century C.E. 5...