Greek Medical Literature and its Readers

Rezensionen / Stimmen

'Through nine chapters focusing on authors spreading from Hippocrates to the medieval readers of Galen, and covering such diverse areas as classical Greece, Byzantium, and the Islamic world, the volume offers an interesting array of concise case studies...The editors' work must be commended for a coherent collection of chapters, with a clear focus and helpful pointers and bibliographies. It is also produced to a high standard. The collection will be especially useful to medical historians with a focus on ancient Greek medicine and its afterlife' - Caroline Petit, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 94, Number 3 (Fall 2020)

'... this volume enriches the bibliography and adds a significant title to the research into the complexities of Greek medical writings from the fifth century BC down to the fourteenth century AD, their reception and their influence on various intellectual milieus. Anyone interested in Greek medical tradition will gain a great profit from the book.' - Maria Chrone, Byzantina Symmeikta 30 (2020)

'The present volume does a good job in showing how, while claiming its status as an individual techne, ancient medicine remains sensitive to its sharedness and openness across a stratified audience whose members have different skills, needs and expectations... the volume deals with a novel - and thorny - subject, and for that it should be praised.' - George Kazantzidis, The Classical Review 69.2 (2019)

'[T]he editors have brought together some interesting articles ... These new collections of articles on a single topic have the advantage of making it easier for other scholars to locate relevant studies.' - Timothy S. Miller, Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2018.07.30)