This book offers a fresh examination of the experimental nature of persuasion in the ancient Greek Hippocratic medical treatises, which are among the first examples of 'scientific' explanatory writing composed for oral dissemination in an age in which there are few precedents fo…
"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 bu…
"Cover"--"Title Page"--"Copyright Page" -- "Table of Contents" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Abbreviations and editions" -- "1 Hippocratic expository prose" -- "2 Models of logos and medical oratory" -- "3 Hippocratic epideixis and the orality of medical oratory" -- "4 Gorgias, Hera…
"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 bu…