Bouras-Vallianatos / Xenophontos Greek Medical Literature and its Readers

From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-20525-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 20, 252 Seiten

Reihe: Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bouras-Vallianatos, Petros

Xenophontos, Sophia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Sophia Xenophontos

PART I

The Classical World

1. Alcmaeon and His Addressees: Revisiting the Incipit

Stavros Kouloumentas

2. Gone with the Wind: Laughter and the Audience of the Hippocratic Treatises

Laurence Totelin

3. The Professional Audiences of the Hippocratic Epidemics: Patient Cases in Hippocratic Scientific Communication

Chiara Thumiger

PART II

The Imperial World

4. Galen’s Exhortation to the Study of Medicine: An Educational Work for

Prospective Medical Students

Sophia Xenophontos

5. An Interpretation of the Preface to Medical Puzzles and Natural Problems 1

by Ps.-Alexander of Aphrodisias in Light of Medical Education

Michiel Meeusen

PART III

The Islamic World

6. The User-Friendly Galen: Hunayn Ibn Ishaq and the Adaptation of Greek

Medicine for a New Audience

Uwe Vagelpohl

7. Medical Knowledge as Proof of the Creator’s Wisdom and the Arabic

Reception of Galen’s On the Usefulness of the Parts

Elvira Wakelnig

PART IV

The Byzantine World

8. Physician versus Physician: Comparing the Audience of On the Constitution

of Man by Meletios and Epitome on the Nature of Men by Leo the Physician

Erika Gielen

9. Reading Galen in Byzantium: The Fate of Therapeutics to Glaucon

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos

Über Autor(innen)

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Department of History, and Member of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, at King’s College London.

Sophia Xenophontos is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow.