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Ancient Greek Medicine in Questions and Answers
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This volume provides a set of in-depth case studies about the role of questions and answers (Q&A) in ancient Greek medical writing from its Hippocratic beginnings up to, and including, Late Ant...
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12 November 2020

This volume provides a set of in-depth case studies about the role of questions and answers (Q&A) in ancient Greek medical writing from its Hippocratic beginnings up to, and including, Late Antiquity. The use of Q&A formulas is widely attested in ancient Greek medical texts, casting an intriguing light on its relevance for the medical art at large, and for ancient medical practice, education, and research in specific (diagnostics, didactics, dialectics). The book aims to break new grounds by exploring, for the first time, the wide complexity of this phenomenon while introducing a coherent approach. In so doing, it not only covers highly specialized medical treatises but also non-canonical authors and texts, including anonymous papyrus fragments and collections of problems.
Price: $150.00
Pages: 242
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in Ancient Medicine
Publication Date:
12 November 2020
ISBN: 9789004437654
Format: Hardcover
"The volume provides excellent coverage of the medical papyri and problemata-style texts, with essays on audience, genre, logic, structure and text-critical and papyrological issues cohering closely together. (...) It is generally successful in its aim to use Q&A as a springboard to provide unexpected ‘windows’ onto wider cultural, philosophical, and textual features of ancient medicine. It will certainly be of interest and use not only to those working on ancient medicine more generally but also to scholars interested in wide-angled approaches to genre. It is a well-produced book with a thorough index."
Claire Hall in BMCR 2021.06.41
Claire Hall in BMCR 2021.06.41
Michiel Meeusen (Ph.D. KU Leuven, 2013) specialises in ancient science and medicine and the literature and culture of the High Roman Empire.
Contributors are:
Isabella Bonati, Luca Gili, Laura Mareri, Robert Mayhew, Michiel Meeusen, Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Andrés Pelavski, Nicola Reggiani, Antonio Ricciardetto.
Contributors are:
Isabella Bonati, Luca Gili, Laura Mareri, Robert Mayhew, Michiel Meeusen, Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Andrés Pelavski, Nicola Reggiani, Antonio Ricciardetto.