John Wilkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3623162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Wilkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilkins |
| SIGNATURE | WILKINS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4371-2975 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Recent Work on Galen
Sobre medicina e alimentação antigas
Entrevista com John Wilkins, Professor Emérito de Estudos Clássicos na University of Exeter, Reino Unido, especialista em História da Alimentação e da Medicina no Mundo Greco-Romano e membro do comitê científico da revista Food and History publicada pelo European Institute of Food History and Cultures
Food for Life
In Galen’s view, health was a natural state and disease unnatural. If a body became unwell, balance was best restored by adjustments to daily life, in particular to the environment, food and drink, exercise, sleep, physiological balance and mental health. If none of these worked, only then should drugs or more drastic treatments be considered. Galen sets out in On Health how the natural state is best preserved, starting from birth, through childh…
The Concept of Whole Substance in Galen’s "Simple Medicines"
Galen’s great treatise on drugs, Simple Medicines, begins with 5 theoretical books which explain the mechanisms of drug actions in the following catalogues. The key agent of change is the mixture of the qualities hot, cold, wet and dry. But drugs also have substance, the leaf, root or fruit of plants, the material of animals and minerals. How does substance act on the human body? This is one of the key questions for the theory of drugs, since mix…
Cooking and Processing Fish in Antiquity
Scholars have sometimes given the impression that the consumption of fish in the ancient world was most importantly an obsession of the wealthy and corrupt. The politics of fish-eating however is only one small part of the interaction of the Greeks and Romans with fish. The written record shows the widest engagement with fish, their variety and names, along with the cooking, preparation and processing of them. My paper shows that fish are embedde…
Selfhood and the Soul
Selfhood and the Soul' is a collection of new and original essays in honour of Christopher Gill, Emeritus Professor of Ancient Thought at the University of Exeter. All of the essays in the volume contribute to a shared project - the exploration of ancient concepts of self and soul, understood in a broad sense - and, as in the work of the honorand himself, they are distinguished by a diversity of approach and subject matter, ranging widely across …
A Companion to Food in the Ancient World
Companion to Food in the Ancient World
Good food and bad
Hygieia at Dinner and at the Symposium
Galen and the World of Knowledge
Galen is the most important medical writer in Graeco-Roman antiquity, and also extremely valuable for understanding Graeco-Roman thought and society in the second century AD. This volume of essays locates him firmly in the intellectual life of his period, and thus aims to make better sense of the medical and philosophical 'world of knowledge' that he tries to create. How did Galen present himself as a reader and an author in comparison with other…
The Selfish Meme
Galen and Athenaeus in the Hellenistic library
The ordering of knowledge was a major issue for two writers of the late second and early third centuries ce. Athenaeus in his Deipnosophistae (Sophists at dinner) and Galen in a number of nutritional and pharmacological treatises set out to review the state of knowledge in the domain of food, nutrition and culture. The Galenic treatises under discussion here, although only a small part of his output, reflect important aspects of his research meth…
Hygieia at Dinner and at the Symposium
Hygieia was a goddess honoured both in public sanctuaries and in the home. She was also good health personified, the objective of nearly if not all human beings, whether laymen or doctors. An important means to achieving that objective was through diet, for Galen tells us that dietetics was the most useful branch of medicine (On the Powers of Foods 1.1). The aim of this chapter is to explore the broad cultural perspective within which the Greeks …
Paysage et alimentation dans le monde grec
Land and Sea
Discussions of dining in Roman literature often focus on moralising discourses of the satirists in the imperial period. This article seeks to extend the discussion in four areas: (1) a broader temporal frame, which runs from Cato the Elder to Athenaeus; (2) a wider cultural frame, which sets Greek commentaries of Rome alongside Rome's attitudes towards the Greeks; (3) a cultural range beyond Rome's elite, to the majority of the population; (4) a …
The Rivals of Aristophanes
Rivals of Aristophanes
The Contribution of Galen, De Subtiliante Diaeta (On the Thinning Diet)
Journal Article THE CONTRIBUTION OF GALEN, DE SUBTILIANTE DIAETA (ON THE THINNING DIET) Get access JOHN WILKINS JOHN WILKINS University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 45, Issue Supplement_77, January 2002, Pages 47–55, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2002.tb02278.x Published: 22 February 2011
The Boastful Chef
Athenaeus and his world
Food Preparation in Ancient Greece
There are two high-grade restaurants in Devon, 1 The Carved Angel in Dartmouth and Gidleigh Park Hotel in Chagford. At the first at the time of writing, the head chef is a woman, at the second a man. This happy state of affairs is exceptional in the United Kingdom and in many other cultures. With some exceptions, in Britain and elsewhere high-status cooking of this kind is performed by men, while lower-status cooking, particularly in the home, is…
The Boastful Chef
It is well known that ancient Greek comedy is interested in food and wine. Many plays conclude with a feast: further, they were produced at festivals of Dionysos where eating and drinking took place. This book explains the importance of food to comedy: it was a medium through which comedy could represent the material, social, agricultural, political and religious worlds to the Greek city-state. Comedy was a powerful cultural commentator partly be…
Balsdon Fellowship
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Euripides
Athenaeus and his world
The Young of Athens
Philostratos records that the ephebes of Athens wore a black χλαμ⋯ς to commemorate their murder of Kopreus in defence of the Herakleidai. Both the Herakleidai and a herald of Eurystheus appear in Herakleidai of Euripides, but the murder of the herald is not at issue, nor indeed is there any reference to ephebes or ephebic practice. This state of affairs will cause no surprise, for tragedy regularly selects its story-line from the wider range of t…
Cooking and Processing Fish in Antiquity
Scholars have sometimes given the impression that the consumption of fish in the ancient world was most importantly an obsession of the wealthy and corrupt. The politics of fish-eating however is only one small part of the interaction of the Greeks and Romans with fish. The written record shows the widest engagement with fish, their variety and names, along with the cooking, preparation and processing of them. My paper shows that fish are embedde…
Land and Sea
Discussions of dining in Roman literature often focus on moralising discourses of the satirists in the imperial period. This article seeks to extend the discussion in four areas: (1) a broader temporal frame, which runs from Cato the Elder to Athenaeus; (2) a wider cultural frame, which sets Greek commentaries of Rome alongside Rome's attitudes towards the Greeks; (3) a cultural range beyond Rome's elite, to the majority of the population; (4) a …
The Contribution of Galen, De Subtiliante Diaeta (On the Thinning Diet)
Journal Article THE CONTRIBUTION OF GALEN, DE SUBTILIANTE DIAETA (ON THE THINNING DIET) Get access JOHN WILKINS JOHN WILKINS University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 45, Issue Supplement_77, January 2002, Pages 47–55, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2002.tb02278.x Published: 22 February 2011
Mercury
Ovid and the Erymanthian Bear
Sophocles
The Young of Athens
Philostratos records that the ephebes of Athens wore a black χλαμ⋯ς to commemorate their murder of Kopreus in defence of the Herakleidai. Both the Herakleidai and a herald of Eurystheus appear in Herakleidai of Euripides, but the murder of the herald is not at issue, nor indeed is there any reference to ephebes or ephebic practice. This state of affairs will cause no surprise, for tragedy regularly selects its story-line from the wider range of t…
Euripides
Children of Heracles
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Fragments wrongly assigned to The Children of Heracles
"Fragments wrongly assigned to The Children of Heracles" published on by null.
Euripides
Athenaeus and his world
Food Preparation in Ancient Greece
There are two high-grade restaurants in Devon, 1 The Carved Angel in Dartmouth and Gidleigh Park Hotel in Chagford. At the first at the time of writing, the head chef is a woman, at the second a man. This happy state of affairs is exceptional in the United Kingdom and in many other cultures. With some exceptions, in Britain and elsewhere high-status cooking of this kind is performed by men, while lower-status cooking, particularly in the home, is…
The Boastful Chef
It is well known that ancient Greek comedy is interested in food and wine. Many plays conclude with a feast: further, they were produced at festivals of Dionysos where eating and drinking took place. This book explains the importance of food to comedy: it was a medium through which comedy could represent the material, social, agricultural, political and religious worlds to the Greek city-state. Comedy was a powerful cultural commentator partly be…
Balsdon Fellowship
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Rivals of Aristophanes
Rivals of Aristophanes
The Contribution of Galen, De Subtiliante Diaeta (On the Thinning Diet)
Journal Article THE CONTRIBUTION OF GALEN, DE SUBTILIANTE DIAETA (ON THE THINNING DIET) Get access JOHN WILKINS JOHN WILKINS University of Exeter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 45, Issue Supplement_77, January 2002, Pages 47–55, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2002.tb02278.x Published: 22 February 2011
The Boastful Chef
Land and Sea
Discussions of dining in Roman literature often focus on moralising discourses of the satirists in the imperial period. This article seeks to extend the discussion in four areas: (1) a broader temporal frame, which runs from Cato the Elder to Athenaeus; (2) a wider cultural frame, which sets Greek commentaries of Rome alongside Rome's attitudes towards the Greeks; (3) a cultural range beyond Rome's elite, to the majority of the population; (4) a …
Hygieia at Dinner and at the Symposium
Hygieia was a goddess honoured both in public sanctuaries and in the home. She was also good health personified, the objective of nearly if not all human beings, whether laymen or doctors. An important means to achieving that objective was through diet, for Galen tells us that dietetics was the most useful branch of medicine (On the Powers of Foods 1.1). The aim of this chapter is to explore the broad cultural perspective within which the Greeks …
Paysage et alimentation dans le monde grec
Galen and Athenaeus in the Hellenistic library
The ordering of knowledge was a major issue for two writers of the late second and early third centuries ce. Athenaeus in his Deipnosophistae (Sophists at dinner) and Galen in a number of nutritional and pharmacological treatises set out to review the state of knowledge in the domain of food, nutrition and culture. The Galenic treatises under discussion here, although only a small part of his output, reflect important aspects of his research meth…
The Selfish Meme
Galen and the World of Knowledge
Galen is the most important medical writer in Graeco-Roman antiquity, and also extremely valuable for understanding Graeco-Roman thought and society in the second century AD. This volume of essays locates him firmly in the intellectual life of his period, and thus aims to make better sense of the medical and philosophical 'world of knowledge' that he tries to create. How did Galen present himself as a reader and an author in comparison with other…
Hygieia at Dinner and at the Symposium
A Companion to Food in the Ancient World
Companion to Food in the Ancient World
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