Hippocratic oratory : the poetics of early Greek medical prose / James R. Cross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cross, James (James Roger), 1981- author.

Series:

Medicine and the body in antiquity

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Hippocrates--Influence.

Hippocrates.

Hippocrates. Works.

Works (Hippocrates).

Medical literature--Greece--Criticism, Textual.

Medical literature.

Greek prose literature, Hellenistic--Criticism, Textual.

Greek prose literature, Hellenistic.

Oratory, Ancient--History and criticism.

Oratory, Ancient.

Oral tradition--Greece--History--To 1500.

Oral tradition.

Debates and debating--Greece--History--To 1500.

Debates and debating.

Poetics--History--To 1500.

Poetics.

History.

Medicine, Greek and Roman--History--Sources.

Medicine, Greek and Roman.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Criticism, Textual.

Greece.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

viii, 159 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Language Note:

Text in English; some passages in Greek with English translation.

Summary:

"On Ancient Medicine, On the Art, On Breaths, On the Nature of Human Beings and On the Sacred Disease are among the most well-known and sophisticated works of the Hippocratic collection. The authors of these treatises were seeking to find means to express their arguments that built on authoritative models of their predecessors. By examining the range of expressive resources used in their expository prose, James Cross demonstrates how oral tradition and written techniques, such as sound patterning, sign-posting and antithetical formulae, were deployed to help the writers develop a case. The book demonstrates that there were various layers of meaning and manners of communicating ideas which can be found in Hippocratic expository prose, and offers fresh insights into the oral debating culture and experiments in persuasion which characterise the ancient Greek world of the late fifth-century BCE. James Cross is a tutor in classical civilisation at University College London. He completed his PhD in Classics at King's College London. His research focuses on connections between ancient medicine and literature"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Hippocratic expository prose

Models of logos and medical oratory

Hippocratic epideixis and the orality of medical oratory

Gorgias, Heraclitus and the persuasive functions of sound in On breaths

In the agon : the persuasive functions of antithesis in Hippocratic oratory.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-155) and index.

ISBN:

9781472474155

1472474155

OCLC:

975371598