The biography and personality of the "Father of Medicine" were known to the world through these important, but little studied letters and speeches. W.D. Smith here presents them newly edited from the most important manuscripts, with a facing English translation, and offers an introduction that gives a literary analysis and places them in relation to ancient history and ancient medical science. The speeches appear to be early (III B.C.) propaganda for the Island Cos, whose presence in the Library at Alexandria contributed to the characterization of the Hippocratic Corpus, while the Democritus Letters belong to the Roman period, after the firm establishment of Hippocrates' reputation.
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'This volume make(s) the Hippocratic biographical tradition more accessible through interpretations, translations and editions.'
Robert B. Todd, Journal of the History of Medicine, 1994.
'Wesley Smith's recent edition of this material with a facing translation - the first ever in English - and a valuable introduction answers the need of placing those texts in their proper historical perspective.'
Chloe Balla, Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences, 1994.
'Wesley Smith has placed students of Greek medicine in his debt for making [Hippocrates' writings] available, for the first time in a single volume, to both the scholar and the Greekless reader.'
Gary B. Ferngren, Ancient Philosophy, 1994.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 155 mm
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978-90-04-09290-7 (9789004092907)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Wesley D. Smith has taught Greek and Roman literature in the Classical Studies Department at the University of Pennsylvania since 1961. He has been resident at the Hellenic Center in Washington, D.C., the Institute for the History of Medicine in London, and has served as visiting Professor of the Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine in Ontario. He is author of The Hippocratic Tradition (Cornell U.P., 1979) and of numerous studies in ancient Greek literature and in ancient science. In particular, he has studied the nature of early Greek medical writings and the ways in which they were interpreted in later centuries.
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