Hippocratic Lives and Legends

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Bringing together the extant classical and principal Islamic biographies of Hippocrates, translated here for the first time, J.R. Pinault focuses on the processes of biographical fiction that shaped the Hippocratic legends from their Hellenistic origins to the end of antiquity and into the Islamic world. Greek and Latin texts in appendices. HIPPOCRATIC LIVES AND LEGENDS CONTENTS Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction I. Hippocrates Among the Greeks and Romans 1. A Description of the Individual Lives and Their Interrelationship 2. Hippocrates and the Plague 3. Hippocrates and Perdiccas 4. Hippocrates and Artaxerxes II. The Islamic Hippocrates 5. Two Arabic Lives of Hippocrates: the Ṣiwān al-ḥikmah of Abū Sulaymān as-Sijistānī and the Mukhtār al-ḥikam of al-Mubashshir b. Fātik 6. The Account of Hippocrates and the Lovesick Prince in the Ṣiwān 7. The Accounts of Hippocrates and the King of Persia in the Ṣiwān and the Mukhtār Conclusion Appendix A: Greek and Latin Texts of the Classical Lives of Hippocrates Appendix B: English Translations of the Hippocratic Lives of as-Sijistānī, al-Mubashshir, and Ibn Juljul Appendix C: English Translation of the Pseudo-Hippocraticletter Correspondence Between Hippocrates and Artaxerxes Bibliography Index STUDIES INANCIENT MEDICINE