Epidemics in Context: Greek Commentaries on Hippocrates in the Arabic Tradition

by Peter E. Pormann (Editor)

The Hippocratic Epidemics and Galen s Commentary on them constitute milestones in the development of clinical medicine. However, they also illustrate the rich exegetical traditions that existed in the post-classical Greek world. The present volume investigates these texts from various and diverse vantage points: textual criticism; Greek philology; knowledge transfer through translations; and medical history. Especially the Syriac and Arabic traditions of the Epidemics come under scrutiny."

334 pages, Hardcover

First published March 14, 2012

About the author

Peter E. Pormann in Professor of Classics and Graeco-Arabic Studies at the University of Manchester.