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3/100Critics
53/100Scholars
Author:
Robin Lane Fox
Publisher:
Basic Books
Date:
December 8, 2020
A groundbreaking reassessment of many aspects of Greek culture and city life. Acclaimed historian Robin Lane Fox puts remarkable classical works in a wider context and upends our understanding of medical history by establishing that they were written much earlier than previously thought.
What The Reviewers Say
... in part a very erudite detective story in which the author uses the tools of archeology and philology to shed light on a 'remarkable doctor and thinker'.
Fox adds fact and understanding to the general public’s knowledge and misunderstanding of medicine in classical Greece. Many questions remain but he finds answers not just by literary examination but also archaeology .. The reader does not need medical or philosophical knowledge to follow this clear and interesting text. It makes a good introduction to the Greek world in general. The book has a detailed and informative list of illustrations and useful maps..
Lane Fox’s emphasis is less on philosophical wranglings or the fortune of chancers than on detailed observation, the path that takes him to the gold-rush island of Thasos and the controversy over who was the Hippocrates who got the credit for so many doctors’ work.
Fox, in his characteristic thoughtfully argumentative and practical style, sifts through centuries of epigraphic, numismatic, and archaeological evidence to place the so-called Epidemic texts in a new context.
