Ancient Concepts of the Hippocratic ― Papers Presented at the Xiiith International Hippocrates Colloquium, Austin, Texas, August 2008

In Ancient Concepts of the Hippocratic, Lesley Dean-Jones and Ralph Rosen have gathered 19 international authorities in ancient medicine to identify commonalities among the treatises of the Hippocratic Corpus which led scholars of antiquity to group them under one name.

Lesley Dean-Jones (Ph.D. 1987) is Associate Professor and Chair of Classics at The University of Texas at Austin. She has published in ancient medicine, ancient philosophy and Aristotle’s biology and has particular interests in Greek literature and Women in Antiquity. Ralph M. Rosen (Ph.D. 1983) is Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities and Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published broadly on ancient Greek literature and culture, with special focus on ancient comedy and Greco-Roman medicine. Contributors are: Robert Alessi, Veronique Boudon-Millot, Pilar Perez Canizares, Elizabeth Craik, Todd Curtis, Lesley Dean-Jones, Paul Demont, R.J. Hankinson, Ann Ellis Hanson, Maithe Hulskamp, Jacques Jouanna, Roberto Lo Presti, Patrick Macfarlane, Joel E. Mann, Leanne McNamara, Eric Nelson, Susan Prince, Amneris Roselli, Ralph M. Rosen, Laurence Totelin, Philip van der Eijk.