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Prometheus and the Liver through Art and Medicine book cover

1st Edition

Prometheus and the Liver through Art and Medicine

By Thomas van Gulik, Julia van Rosmalen Copyright 2022
200 Pages
by Routledge

Prometheus was punished by the supreme god Zeus for giving to mankind the Olympic fire with which they learned to think and feel. He was chained to a cliff in the Caucasus, where, to make matters worse, he was visited daily by an eagle who ate part of his liver. At night, however, his liver grew back. We now know that the liver can regenerate, but were the ancient Greeks aware of this quality? The... Read more
Introduction, The Prometheus myth, The depiction of Prometheus in classical antiquity, The liver according to the ancient Greeks and the etruscans, The haruspex and Hepatoscopy, Prometheus in the Middle Ages, The liver in the in the Middle Ages, according to Galenus,Prometheus in the Renaissance, The liver in the renaissance as described by Reisch, Vesalius and Da Vinci, Prometheus in the Baroque, The wounds of christ and prometheus, two of a kind? The liver in the Baroque, according to van der Spiegel, Glisson and Bidloo,Prometheus and modernity, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: or the modern Prometheus, The liver in the enlightenment, The 20th century Prometheus, Liver surgery and liver regeneration, Regeneration of the Hydra polyp, Acknowledgements, On the Authors, Image descriptions, Bibliography.

Biography

Julia van Rosmalen specialized in the iconography of medieval art at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She worked as a Voluntary Research Fellow at the Catholic University Leuven. She has conducted this work as part of the Prometheus Project under Professor Thomas van Gulik at the Amsterdam University Medical Centers. Merel van Gulik studied classics and Italian language and culture at the University of Amsterdam. Belle van Rosmalen is a PhD candidate at the Department of Surgery at the Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam. Thomas van Gulik is emeritus Professor of Surgery at the Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam.

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