ABSTRACT
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.
Chapters 3, 6, and 9 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 5I|60 pages
The Classical world
chapter 3|17 pages
The professional audiences of the Hippocratic Epidemics
part 65II|45 pages
The Imperial world
chapter 4|27 pages
Galen’s Exhortation to the Study of Medicine
part 111III|39 pages
The Islamic world
chapter 6|18 pages
The user-friendly Galen
part 151IV|79 pages
The Byzantine world