Galeno e la Campania (De meth. med. v 12)

The recent discovery of De indolentia threw new light on some references to Campania scattered in Galen’s writings. Among them, an accurate description of a site in the Gulf of Naples (De methodo medendi, book v chapter 12), which provides clues useful to evaluate Galen’s acquaintances with the territory of ancient Stabiae, one of the cities destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. Integrating archaeological and topographical evidence with the literary sources, the authors propose to add new elements to the biography of Galen.