58 Lehoux
- See, e.g., Richard England, “Natural Selection, Teleology, and the Logos: From
Darwin to the Oxford Neo- Darwinists, 1859–1909,” Osiris 16 (2001): 270–87; C. Allen,
M. Bekoff, and G. Lauder, eds., Nature’s Purposes (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1998). - Vivian Nutton (plausibly) estimates Galen’s surviving work as constituting
about 10 percent of all extant ancient Greek literature; see Nutton, Ancient Medicine,
390n22. - Galen On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body 16.4.
- Ibid., 6.11.
- On atomism and its revivals, see H. Jones, The Epicurean Tradition (London:
Routledge, 1992). - Galen, On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body 17.1.
- See, e.g., his comments on Methodism—a rival medical school that disparaged
anatomy—in On the Sects, for Beginners 6–7, but a constantly repeated emphasis on the
importance of anatomy recurs throughout his corpus. - Aristotole, On the Heavens 1.2.
- The arguments for this are complex, and differ to some degree between the ver-
sions in Metaphysics 12 and Physics 8, not to mention some of the shorter versions in
other texts (e.g., On Generation and Corruption; On the Movement of Animals). - See Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods 2.
- Indeed, most Hellenistic schools saw themselves as centrally concerned with
ethics; see, e.g., K. Algra et al., eds., The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999); P. Hadot, What Is Ancient Phisosophy?
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002). - See, e.g., C. Ando, Roman Religion (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,
2003).