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TABLE OF CONTENTS OF VOLUME II
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
xiii
FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION
xvii
FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION
xxii
INTRODUCTION
1
CHAPTER I - HISTORICAL OUTLINE
7
A) History
7
B) Social Background
19
a) Economy, Education, and Social Structure
19
b) Homosexuality in the Greek World
29
C) Conclusions
53
CHAPTER II - RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
55
A) Pre-Socratic Schools
57
a) The Milesian School (Thales, Anaximander,
Anaximenes – c.585 BC)
58
b) Heraclitus (c.535-475 BC)
67
c) Pythagoras (c.582-c.507 BC)
70
d) Xenophanes (c.570-c.475 BC)
78
e) The Eleatic School (Parmenides, Zeno – c.500 BC)
80
f) Empedocles (c.490-c.430 BC)
83
g) Anaxagoras (c.500-428 BC)
87
h) The Atomists (Leucippus, Democritus – c.450-370 BC)
90
i) The Sophists (5th century BC)
94
B) Socrates (469-399 BC)
96
C) Plato (427-347 BC)
98
D) Aristotle (384-322 BC)
104
E) Post-Aristotelian Schools
108
a) Cynics and Sceptics
109
b) Epicureanism
112
c) Stoicism
116
F) The Alexandrian World
122
a) Religion
122
b) Philosophy
124
G) Conclusions
125
CHAPTER III - SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
127
A) Mathematics and Geometry
131
B) Astronomy
136
C) Alexandrian Science and Technology
144
D) Pseudo-science
155
E) Conclusions
157
CHAPTER IV - MEDICINE BEFORE HIPPOCRATES
161
A) The School of Croton
163
a) Democedes (fl. c.550 BC)
166
b) Alcmaeon (fl. c.490-450 BC)
168
c) Philolaus of Croton (fl. c. 440 BC)
182
B) The Sicilian School
185
a) Empedocles (c.490-c.430 BC)
185
b) Philistion of Locri (fl. c.350 BC)
190
C) Others
194
D) Conclusions
200
CHAPTER V - HIPPOCRATES AND HIPPOCRATIC MEDICINE
203
A) The Coan and Cnidian Schools
208
B) Hippocratic Medicine
218
a) Sources
219
1. Corpus Hippocraticum
219
2. Anonymus Londinensis
230
3. Other Sources
230
b) The Supernaturalistic Heritage
231
c) Anatomy
252
d) Physiology
266
e) Pharmacology and Therapeutics
289
f) Medicine
309
g) Surgery
322
h) Obstetrics and Gynecology
345
i) The Hippocratic Oath
357
C) Conclusions
396
CHAPTER VI - FROM HIPPOCRATES TO ALEXANDRIAN
MEDICINE
401
A) Plato
401
B) Aristotle
409
a) Biology
411
b) Anatomy
415
c) Physiology
430
d) Medicine
442
C) Diocles of Carystus (fl. c.350 BC)
443
D) Theophrastus (c.370-325 BC)
450
E) Strato of Lampsacus (c.340-c.269 BC)
455
F) Praxagoras of Cos (fl. c.320 BC)
459
G) Others
466
H) Conclusions
471
CHAPTER VII - ALEXANDRIAN MEDICINE
473
A) Supernaturalistic Medicine
474
B) Herophilus
475
a) Anatomy
480
i) Nervous System
480
ii) Cardiovascular System
482
iii) Reproductive System
484
iv) Other Anatomical Contributions
486
b) Physiology
489
i) Pulse
489
ii) Other Physiological Contributions
494
c) Medicine and Therapeutics
495
d) The Herophileans
498
C) Erasistratus
506
a) Anatomy and Physiology
509
b) Medicine and Therapeutics
526
c) Surgery
532
d) The Erasistrateans
533
D) The Dogmatic and Empiric Schools
535
E) Critical Work on the Hippocratic Corpus
552
F) Conclusions
554
CHAPTER VIII - PHYSICIANS
563
A) The Treatment of Hopeless Cases
585
GENERAL CONCLUSIONS
595
INDEX
635
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