What is it about?
The treatise entitled On anatomical procedures displays an extensive corpus in order to analyze the Galenic literary language. Its patterns have been diversely labelled, either as belonging to the ranks of a moderate Atticism or to the ranks of Antiatticism. Again this second option, which speaks for the understanding of the treatise beyond any literary intention, the use of many different rhetorical devices shows a good knowledge of artistical prose by our author. Nevertheless, the analysis of language proves that it is based on not-literary Koine.
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Our attempt tries to distinguish the literary and the linguistic trends of the Galenic prose.
Perspectives
The article belongs to a double research programme, with independent objectives: on the one side, it is embedded within a new Spanish translation of the whole Galenic corpus, assumed by a team under the direction of J.A. López Férez; on the other, it fits with the author's studies on the Greek Koine.
Mr Jordi Redondo
Universitat de Valencia
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This page is a summary of: Koiné y aticismo en el tratado de Galeno Sobre los procedimientos anatómicos, Nova Tellus, June 2017, Instituto de Investigaciones Filologicas,
DOI: 10.19130/iifl.nt.2017.35.1.754.
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