The Ancient Latin Commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms on the Threshold of the Twelfth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20074560 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Manuel Enrique Vázquez Buján (0000-0001-6579-5025, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 350-367 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | 'Greek' and 'Roman' in Latin Medical Texts (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004273863_020 |
| OpenAlex | W814751435 |
| ISBN | 9789004273863 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The oldest commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms was originally written in Latin around the time of Isidore of Seville and is part of the Alexandrian exegetic tradition. This chapter studies the different ways this commentary has been disseminated since the beginning of the twelfth century. It refers to evidence from two manuscripts which transmit an abridged version of the text, and from three others which, by contrast, give an expanded version of it. The chapter cites a few specimens and, in the case of the expanded version, the author's study only refers to the preface. This preface raises some curious problems from a historical point of view: the attribution of the commentary to Oribasius, the explanatory method, and the distribution of stages in human life, considering that the Aphorisms can provide an answer to all kinds of illnesses, whether male or female, and irrespective of age. Keywords: abridged version; ancient latin commentary; expanded version; Hippocratic Aphorisms ;Oribasius; twelfth century; human life
Art · Hippocratic Oath · Literature · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Classics · History · History of Medicine Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |