Hippocratic lives and legends /

Hippocratic lives and legends /

Hippocratic Lives and Legends examines the ideal of the ancient physician and processes of biographical fiction that shaped the legend of Hippocrates. Focusing on three stories in particular - how Hippocrates cured the plague, Hippocrates' detection of King Perdiccas' lovesickness, and Hip...

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Main Author: Pinault, Jody Rubin.

Format: eBook

Language: English
Greek
Latin
Arabic

Published: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1992.

Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine 4.
Studies in Ancient Medicine Online, ISBN: 9789004380813.

Subjects:

Hippocrates.
Medicine, Greek and Roman.

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Call Number: R126.H8 P56 1992

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • A Description of the Individual Lives and Their Interrelationship
  • Hippocrates and the Plague
  • Hippocrates and Perdiccas
  • Hippocrates and Artaxerxes
  • Two Arabic Lives of Hippocrates: the Ṣiwān al-ḥikmah of Abū Sulaymānas-Sijistānī and the Mukhtār al-ḥikam of al-Mubashshir B. Fātik
  • The Account of Hippocrates and the Lovesick Prince in the Ṣiwān
  • The Accounts of Hippocrates and the King of Persia in the Ṣiwān and the Mukhtār
  • Conclusion
  • Greek and Latin Texts of the Classical Lives of Hippocrates
  • English Translations of the Hippocratic Lives of as-Sijistānī, al-Mubashshir, and Ibn Juljul
  • The Pseudo-Hippocratic Letter Correspondence Between Hippocrates and Artaxerxes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Studies in Ancient Medicine.