The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Volume LXXX

The volume contains texts studied in the course of the project "New Medical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus", funded by the Wellcome Trust. These include known medical texts by Hippocrates, Dioscorides and Galen, but also new material: texts from the 1st to 3rd/4th centuries on acute diseases, medical recipes, surgical texts, and doctors'' reports. It is the first major collection of medical papyri from a single place, amplifying Peter Parson''s magisterial account of medicine, health and disease at Oxyrhynchus,City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egyptof 2007.>

Riassunto

P. Oxy. LXXX features texts from the New Medical Texts from Oxyrhynchus project (2007-10), funded by the Wellcome Trust. It includes known works by Hippocrates, Dioscorides, and Galen, plus new texts on acute diseases, medical recipes, and surgical reports from the 1st to 4th centuries.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: M Hirt, D Leith
• Con la collaborazione di: M Hirt (Editore), M. Hirt (Editore), D Leith (Editore), D. Leith (Editore)
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2015
• EAN: 9780856982224
• ISBN: 978-0-85698-222-4
• Pagine: 176
• Dimensioni: 190 mm x 255 mm x 20 mm
• Serie: Graeco-Roman Memoirs
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE