Hippocratic lives and legends / / by Jody Rubin Pinault.

• Superior document: Studies in ancient medicine, v. 4
• Author: Pinault, Jody Rubin.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1992.
• Year of Publication: 1992
• Language: English; Greek; Latin; Arabic
• Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (159 pages) :; illustrations
• Notes: Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Pennsylvania.

Hippocratic Lives and Legends examines the ideal of the ancient physician and processes of biographical fiction that shaped the legend of Hippocrates. Focusing on three stories in particular — how Hippocrates cured the plague, Hippocrates' detection of King Perdiccas' lovesickness, and Hippocrates' refusal to serve Artaxerxes, King of Persia — J.R. Pinault traces the development of these legends from their Hellenistic origins to the end of antiquity and into the Islamic world. In addition, Hippocrates Lives and Legends will prove a useful reference work. J.R. Pinault brings together in a convenient format the classical biographies of Hippocrates and the principal Arabic lives, translated here for the first time. Each text is discussed in detail, and the Greek and Latin texts of the classical lives are made available in the appendices.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- A Description of the Individual Lives and Their Interrelationship -- Hippocrates and the Plague -- Hippocrates and Perdiccas -- Hippocrates and Artaxerxes -- Two Arabic Lives of Hippocrates: the Ṣiwān al-ḥikmah of Abū Sulaymānas-Sijistānī and the Mukhtār al-ḥikam of al-Mubashshir B. Fātik -- The Account of Hippocrates and the Lovesick Prince in the Ṣiwān -- The Accounts of Hippocrates and the King of Persia in the Ṣiwān and the Mukhtār -- Conclusion -- Greek and Latin Texts of the Classical Lives of Hippocrates -- English Translations of the Hippocratic Lives of as-Sijistānī, al-Mubashshir, and Ibn Juljul -- The Pseudo-Hippocratic Letter Correspondence Between Hippocrates and Artaxerxes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Studies in Ancient Medicine.