Greek Medical Literature and Its Readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367593203
• ISBN13: 9780367593209
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"