Greek medical literature and its readers : from Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium /

Greek medical literature and its readers : from Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium /

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Imprint:	Milton Park, Abingdon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. ©2018
Description:	x, 239 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London ; 20 Publications (King's College London. Centre for Hellenic Studies) ; 20.
Subject:	Medicine, Greek and Roman -- History -- Sources. Medical literature -- Greece. Medical literature. Medicine, Greek and Roman. History, Ancient. Greece. History. Sources.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11563027

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Other authors / contributors:	Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros, editor.
ISBN:	9781472487919 1472487915 9781351205276
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	This volume focuses on the relationship between Greek medical texts and their audience(s), offering insights into how not only the backgrounds and skills of medical authors but also the contemporary environment affected issues of readership, methodology and mode of exposition. One of the volume's overarching aims is to add to our understanding of the role of the reader in the contextualisation of Greek medical literature in the light of interesting case-studies from various - often radically different - periods and cultures, including the Classical (such as the Hippocratic corpus) and Roman Imperial period (for instance Galen), and the Islamic and Byzantine world. Promoting, as it does, more in-depth research into the intricacies of Greek medical writings and their diverse revival and transformation from the fifth century BC down to the fourteenth century AD, this volume will be of interest to classicists, medical historians and anyone concerned with the reception of the Greek medical tradition.

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Call Number:	R138 .G73 2018
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