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Book SynopsisThis collection of articles presents cutting-edge scholarship in Hippocratic studies in English from an international range of experts. It pays special attention to the commentary tradition, notably in Syriac and Arabic, and its relevance to the constitution and interpretation of works in the Hippocratic Corpus. It presents new evidence from hitherto unpublished sources, including Greek papyri and Syriac and Arabic manuscripts. It encompasses not only the classical period (and notably Galen), but also tackles evidence from the medieval and Renaissance periods. Contributors are: Elizabeth Craik, David Leith, Tommaso Raiola, Jacques Jouanna, Caroline Magdelaine, Jean-Michel Mouton, Peter N. Singer, R. J. Hankinson, Ralph M. Rosen, Daniela Manetti, Mathias Witt, Amneris Roselli, Véronique Boudon-Millot, Sabrina Grimaudo, Giulia Ecca, Kamran I. Karimullah, María Teresa Santamaría Hernández, and Jesús Ángel y Espinós.
Trade Review"The published papers in this volume reflect his group’s multilingual and interlingual focus. But they do much more than this. The majority of the papers address three interconnected questions: (1) the boundary between an exegesis and an exposition; (2) how the genre of the source text influences the commentary (notably in the case of surgical texts); and (3) how commentary can serve to canonize an author, and stigmatize other views and interpretations. The result is a collection of essays that is remarkably coherent and focused. (...) Taken as a whole, this is a very satisfying volume, with a thematic unity both unusual in proceedings of this kind, and original." - Faith Wallis, in: BMCR, 2022.09.34
Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Peter E. Pormann 1 Reflections on Hippocratic Commentary Elizabeth Craik 2 Asclepiades of Bithynia as Hippocratic Commentator David Leith 3 Sabinus ‘the Hippocratic’: His Exegetical Method in the Commentaries on Hippocrates Tommaso Raiola 4 Galen as Commentator of Commentaries: The Case of the HippocraticEpidemics 1 and 3 Jacques Jouanna 5 New Fragments of a Commentary on the Oath Attributed to Galen Caroline Magdelaine and Jean-Michel Mouton 6 Beyond and behind the Commentary: Galen on Hippocrates on Elements Peter N. Singer 7 Galen the Hippocratic: Textual Analysis and the Practice of Commentary R.J. Hankinson 8 Galen’s Hippocratic ‘Commentary’ on The Capacities of the Soul Depend on the Mixtures of the Body Ralph M. Rosen 9 Commenting beyond the Commentary: Galen’s Exegetical Strategies in Difficulties in Breathing Daniela Manetti 10 Types of Cranial Injuries in the Hippocratic Wounds in the Head in Light of the Ancient Commentary Tradition Mathias Witt 11 Galen’s Surgical Commentaries on Hippocrates Amneris Roselli 12 Galen and Pseudo-Galen in Conversation: Epidemics 2.3.2 and Aphorisms 4.5 Véronique Boudon-Millot 13 Ancient Medicine in the Galenic Corpus: The Story of a Concealment Sabrina Grimaudo 14 A New Anonymous Prologue to the Commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms in the Harleianus 6295 Giulia Ecca 15 On the Authorship of the Syriac Prognostic Kamran I. Karimullah 16 The Latin Commentary by Pedro Jaime Esteve on the Second Book of the Hippocratic Epidemics (Valencia, 1551) María Teresa Santamaría Hernández 17 The First Complete Renaissance Commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics Jesús Ángel y Espinós Bibliography Index Locorum General Index
