Petros (Hrsg.) Bouras-Vallianatos

Greek Medical Literature and its Readers

From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium

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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 Islami… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Xenophontos, Sophia (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-351-20525-2
EAN: 9781351205252
Produktnummer: 27163461
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 252 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Abbildungen: 14 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 9 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 1 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 4 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Department of History, and Member of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, at King's College London.Sophia Xenophontos is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow.