Search results for "Hippocratic Corpu"
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The hallmark of anonymity. Questions of authorship in the Hippocratic Corpus, specifically regarding the so-called 'Author C'
2020
Since Émile Littrés’ time a particular attention has been devoted to a group of Hippocratic treatises (On Generation/On the Nature of the Child + Book IV of Diseases) showing a significant range of affinities and common elements in language, style, tenor and thought. Studies by Hermann Grensemann (in the 1980s) contributed to further philological analysis of the peculiar traits of the so-called Hippocratic ‘author C’, widening the textual basis to be involved in the investigation (including gynaecological treatises like On Diseases of Women 1-2 as well as parts of Infertile Women). Recently new light has also been shed by Elizabeth Craik (editing 2009 the treatise On Glands) on the historic…
Der kontaminierte Hippokrates: Textkritischer Wert und Vorlagen der Handschrift Parisinus gr. 2142.
2014
Il manoscritto Parisinus Graecus 2142 è uno dei più antichi ed importanti tra i cosiddetti codici recenziori della tradizione manoscritta del corpus ippocratico, e si presta particolarmente per la sua natura bipartita e contaminata ad essere riesaminato dal punto di vista del suo valore per l'editore di testi ippocratici. Una tale analisi critica non può prescindere dal problema delle origini delle contaminazioni cui le diverse mani che hanno vergato il Parisinus avrebbero avuto accesso. L'analisi dettagliata delle diverse mani correttrici e del loro apporto alla constitutio del testo di un campione significativo di scritti ippocratici mostra il particolare rilievo del Parisinus, specie del…
Forms and limits of therapeutic treatments of hereditary diseases in ancient Greece
2017
Not being epistemologically different from treatment of congenital diseases, the therapy of hereditary diseases has to be considered in its complex relationship with the concepts of nature and culture, and with the ideas of Greek authors about generation and education. As such, therapy of hereditary diseases can be described as the (often hopeless) attempt by the ancient, particularly Hippocratic physician to restore the health condition or to contrast the natural tendency of the patient to develop and give expression to his or her pathological inheritance. If for the Greek physician dietetics represents the most widely practised way of treating disaeses on a presumed inherited basis, the n…
Storie di titoli di scritti ippocratici e loro traduzioni tra antichità e modernità.
2018
The paper aims to present through case studies the history of the titles of some writings belonging to the Hippocratic Corpus with particular regard to their translations into ancient and modern languages. This investigation is of some relevance in order to understand the historical conditions under which Hippocratic treatises were transmitted. In this connection, a relation can be shown between the translated titles of the writings considered on the one side (among them in the first instance de genitura/de natura pueri and de aeribus) and on the other side the ways in which their contents have been transmitted through scientific language in the various historical contexts.
Polisemia di nòmos e l'esordio di Hipp. de genitura
2016
Far from being, as has been said, “the bizarrest beginning of all the Hippocratic writings (...) deserving of therapy”, this paper aims to show that the opening words of the Hippocratic writing “On Generation” (νόμοϲ μὲν πάντα κρατύνει), in itself echoing a famous Pindaric motto, seem to be used first of all in order to evoke a cultural, intellectual and scientific world, in which the nòmos has become one of the most important keywords of the time. From this point of view, the Pindaric quotation seems to be played out on the wide semantic range of nòmos as well as on the ambiguous meaning of the verb κρατύνω, which in this embryological context denote specifically the consolidation and hard…