Paul and the Gentile Problem provides a new explanation for the apostle Paul's statements
about the Jewish law in his letters to the Romans and Galatians. Paul's arguments against …

This work brings together Philip van der Eijk's previously published essays on the close
connections that existed between medicine and philosophy throughout antiquity. Medical …

While Aristotle's writings on biology are considered to be among his best, the comments he
makes about females in these works are widely regarded as the nadir of his philosophical …

Aristotle's account of female nature has received mostly negative treatment, emphasising
what he says females cannot do. Building on recent research, this book comprehensively …

Stephen Scully both offers a reading of Hesiod's Theogony and traces the reception and
shadows of this authoritative Greek creation story in Greek and Roman texts up to Milton's …

This book traces the image of the pregnant male in Greek literature as it evolves over the
course of the classical period. The image-as deployed in myth and in metaphor-originates …

In this paper I address an important question in Aristotle's biology, What are the causal
mechanisms behind the transmission of biological form? Aristotle's answer to this question, I …

Forms, Souls, and Embryos allows readers coming from different backgrounds to appreciate
the depth and originality with which the Neoplatonists engaged with and responded to a …

For surely it is not likely either that fire or earth or any such element should be the reason
why things manifest goodness and beauty both in their being and in their coming to be, or …

Historically embryogenesis has been among the most philosophically intriguing
phenomena. In this paper I focus on one aspect of biological development that was …