Epidemics in Context : : Greek Commentaries on Hippocrates in the Arabic Tradition / / ed. by Peter E. Pormann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Alessi, Robert,; Chipman, Leigh,; Eijk, Philip van der,; Hallum, Bink,; Holmes, Brooke,; Joosse, N. Peter,; Kessel, Grigory,; Overwien, Oliver,; Pormann, Peter E.,; Strohmaier, Gotthard,; Swain, Simon,; Vagelpohl, Uwe,
• HerausgeberIn: Pormann, Peter E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Scientia Graeco-Arabica , 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (334 p.)

The Hippocratic Epidemics and Galen’s Commentary on them constitute milestones in the development of clinical medicine. But they also illustrate the rich exegetical traditions that existed in the post-classical Greek world. The present volume investigates these texts from various and diverse vantage points: textual criticism; Greek philology; knowledge transfer through translations; and medical history. Especially the Syriac and Arabic traditions of the Epidemics come under scrutiny.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- A New Manuscript: Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, MS Ayasofya 3592 -- Greek Epidemics -- Exegesis, Explanation and Epistemology in Galen’s Commentaries on Epidemics, Books One and Two -- Sympathy between Hippocrates and Galen: The Case of Galen’s Commentary on Hippocrates' ‘Epidemics’, Book Two -- The Arabic Version of Galen’s Commentary on Hippocrates’ ‘Epidemics’, Book Two, as a source for the Hippocratic Text: First Remarks -- Syriac and Arabic Epidemics -- The Syriac Epidemics and the Problem of Its Identification -- Galen, Epidemics, Book One: Text, Transmission, Translation -- The Art of the Translator, or: How did Ḥunayn ibn ʾIsḥāq and his School Translate? -- Galen the Pagan and Ḥunayn the Christian: Specific Transformations in the Commentaries on Airs, Waters, Places and the Epidemics -- The later Arabic medical tradition and the Epidemics -- The Arabic Reception of Galen’s Commentary on Hippocrates' ‘Epidemics’ -- Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms in the Arabic Tradition: The Example of Melancholy -- ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baġdādī’s Commentary on Hippocrates’ ‘Prognostic’: A Preliminary Exploration -- Recipes by Hippocrates, Galen and Ḥunayn in the Epidemics and in Medieval Arabic Pharmacopoeias -- Bibliography -- Index -- List of Contributors