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Zusatztext "[T]he editors have brought together some interesting articles ... These new collections of articles on a single topic have the advantage of making it easier for other scholars to locate relevant studies." - Timothy S. Miller! Salisbury University! USA! Bryn Mawr Classical Review"The present volume does a good job in showing how! while claiming its status as an individual technê! ancient medicine remains sensitive to its sharedness and openness across a stratified audience whose members have different skills! needs and expectations... the volume deals with a novel - and thorny - subject! and for that it should be praised." - George Kazantzidis! University of Patras! Greece! The Classical Review Informationen zum 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Sophia XenophontosPART I The Classical World1. Alcmaeon and His Addressees: Revisiting the Incipit Stavros Kouloumentas2. Gone with the Wind: Laughter and the Audience of the Hippocratic Treatises Laurence Totelin3. The Professional Audiences of the Hippocratic Epidemics: Patient Cases in Hippocratic Scientific Communication Chiara Thumiger PART IIThe Imperial World4. Galen's Exhortation to the Study of Medicine: An Educational Work for Prospective Medical Students Sophia Xenophontos 5. An Interpretation of the Preface to Medical Puzzles and Natural Problems 1 by Ps.-Alexander of Aphrodisias in Light of Medical Education Michiel MeeusenPART IIIThe Islamic World6. The User-Friendly Galen: Hunayn Ibn Ishaq and the Adaptation of Greek Medicine for a New Audience Uwe Vagelpohl 7. Medical Knowledge as Proof of the Creator's Wisdom and the Arabic Reception of Galen's On the Usefulness of the Parts Elvira Wakelnig PART IVThe Byzantine World8. Physician versus Physician: Comparing the Audience of On the Constitution of Man by Meletios and Epitome on the Nature of Men by Leo the Physician Erika Gielen9. Reading Galen in Byzantium: The Fate of Therapeutics to Glaucon Petros Bouras-Vallianatos ...
