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