: Peter E. Pormann
: Epidemics in Context Greek Commentaries on Hippocrates in the Arabic Tradition
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
: 9783110259803
: Scientia Graeco-ArabicaISSN
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: Altertum
: English
: 340
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< >The HippocraticEpidemics nd Galen’sCommentaryon 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 theEpidemicscome under scrutiny.


< >Peter E. Pormann, University of Manchester, UK.
Introduction7
A New Manuscript: Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi, MS Ayasofya 359221
Greek Epidemics29
Exegesis, Explanation and Epistemology in Galen’s Commentaries on Epidemics, Books One and Two31
Sympathy between Hippocrates and Galen: The Case of Galen’s Commentary on Hippocrates’ ‘Epidemics’, Book Two55
The Arabic Version of Galen’s Commentary on Hippocrates’ ‘Epidemics’, Book Two as a source for the Hippocratic Text: First Remarks77
Syriac and Arabic Epidemics97
The Syriac Epidemics and the Problem of Its Identification99
Galen, Epidemics, Book One: Text, Transmission, Translation131
The Art of the Translator, or: How did Hunayn ibn ’Ish.aq and his School Translate?157
Galen the Pagan and H.unayn the Christian: Specific Transformations in the Commentaries on Airs, Waters, Places and the Epidemics177
The later Arabic medical tradition and the Epidemics191
The Arabic Reception of Galen’s Commentary on Hippocrates’ ‘Epidemics’191
Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms in the Arabic Tradition: The Example of Melancholy217
’Abd al-Lat.if al-Bag.dadi’s Commentary on Hippocrates’ ‘Prognostic’: A Preliminary Exploration257
Recipes by Hippocrates, Galen and H.unayn in the Epidemics and in Medieval Arabic Pharmacopoeias291
Bibliography309
Index329
List of Contributors339