Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2010

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• Hesiod: The Other Poet

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: H. Koning
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  • This book offers a comprehensive account of the role of Hesiod in the ancient imagination, investigating the poet as a literary-critical concept, a moral and philosophical symbol, and generally a cultural icon endlessly employed and re-created by later Greeks.

• Hippocrates and Medical Education

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editor Manfred Horstmanshoff
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  • The collection of writings known as the Corpus Hippocraticum played a decisive role in medical education for more than twenty four centuries. This is the first full-length volume on medical education in Graeco-Roman antiquity since Kudlien’s seminal article from 1970. The articles in this volume were originally presented as papers at the XIIth International Colloquium Hippocraticum in Leiden in 2005.