TY - BOOK ID - 5073195 TI - Hippocratic lives and legends PY - 1992 VL - 4 SN - 9004095748 9004377298 PB - Leiden : E.J. Brill, DB - UniCat KW - History of Medicine, Ancient KW - Medicine, Greek and Roman KW - Médecine grecque et romaine KW - Hippocrates KW - History, Ancient. KW - Médecine grecque et romaine KW - Medicine, Greek and Roman. KW - Greek medicine KW - Medicine, Roman KW - Medicine, Unani KW - Roman medicine KW - Tibb (Medicine) KW - Unani medicine KW - Unani-Tibb (Medicine) KW - Medicine, Ancient KW - Hippocrates. KW - Abuqrā KW - Hipócrates KW - Hippocrate KW - Hippocrates, KW - Hippokrates KW - Ipoḳrat KW - Ippocrate KW - Ypocras KW - Abuqrāṭ KW - היפוקראטס KW - بقراط UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5073195 AB - Hippocratic Lives and Legends examines the ideal of the ancient physician and processes of biographical fiction that shaped the legend of Hippocrates. Focusing on three stories in particular — how Hippocrates cured the plague, Hippocrates' detection of King Perdiccas' lovesickness, and Hippocrates' refusal to serve Artaxerxes, King of Persia — J.R. Pinault traces the development of these legends from their Hellenistic origins to the end of antiquity and into the Islamic world. In addition, Hippocrates Lives and Legends will prove a useful reference work. J.R. Pinault brings together in a convenient format the classical biographies of Hippocrates and the principal Arabic lives, translated here for the first time. Each text is discussed in detail, and the Greek and Latin texts of the classical lives are made available in the appendices. ER -