Hippocratic Commentaries in the Greek, Latin, Syriac and Arabic Traditions

Peter E. Pormann, D.Phil. (2002), D.Litt. (2014), both University of Oxford, is Professor of Classics and Graeco-Arabic Studies at the University of Manchester. Recent publications include the Cambridge Companion to Hippocrates (CUP, 2018).

List 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