Hippocrates is a towering figure in Greek medicine. Dubbed the 'father of medicine', he has inspired generations of physicians over millennia in both the East a

Accessible and up-to-date introduction to the legacy of Hippocrates, the man and the writings attributed to him.

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This unique volume offers an odyssey through the ideas of the Stoics in three particular ways: first, through the historical trajectory of the school itself and

This study places Galen more firmly in the intellectual life of his period of the second century AD.