Medicine and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean

D. Michaelides

• Publisher: Oxbow Books
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9781782972389
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Diseases & Allergies

There are many recoverable aspects and indications concerning medicine and healing in the ancient past – from the archaeological evidence of skeletal remains, grave-goods comprising medical and/or surgical equipment and visual representations in tombs and other monuments thorough to epigraphic and literary sources. The 42 papers presented here cover many aspects medicine in the Mediterranean world during Antiquity and early Byzantine times, bringing together both internationally established specialists on the history of medicine and researchers in the early stages of their career. The contributions are grouped under a series of headings: medicine and archaeology; media (online access to electronic corpus); the Aegean; medical authors/schools of medicine; surgery; medicaments and cures; skeletal remains; new research in Cyprus; Asklepios and incubation; and Byzantine, Arab and medieval sources. These subject areas are addressed through a combination of wide ranging archaeological and osteological data and the examination and interpretation of philosophical, literary and historiographical texts to provide a comprehensive suite of studies into early practices in this fundamental field of human experience.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Conference Programme
• Contributors to this Volume
• Part I: Medicine and Archaeology
• Chapter 1: Medicine and Archaeology
• Chapter 2: Η Ιατρική στην Αιανή και την Άνω Μακεδονία κατά την Αρχαιότητα
• Chapter 3: Ancient Greek Votives, Vases and Stelae Depicting Medical Diseases
• Chapter 4: The Anatomical Ex-votos of Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus
• Part II: Media
• Chapter 5: Providing Online Access to Graeco-Roman Medicine: BIUM’s Electronic Corpus of Ancient Physicians
• Part III: The Aegean
• Chapter 6: Healers and Medicines in the Mycenaean Greek Texts
• Chapter 7: Health and Healing on Cretan Bronze Age Peak Sanctuaries
• Chapter 8: Medical Knowledge on the Evidence of the Iliad
• Part IV: Medical Authors / Schools of Medicine
• Chapter 9: Αναζητώντας Ίχνη τουΙπποκρατικού Όρκου
• Chapter 10: Echoing Hippocrates: Aspects of Genre Intertextuality in the 5th Century BC
• Chapter 11: Ancient Medicine and Philosophy: a Philosopher’s Perspective
• Chapter 12: The Threshold of Pain: the Literary Embodiment of Pain and its Cognates in the Hippocratic Corpus
• Chapter 13: Le Traité de Galien De pulsibus ad tirones : Pratique Médicale et Représentation du Corps Humain
• Chapter 14: Γαληνού της Περγάμου «Τέχνη Ἰατρική»: Επιτομή της Ιατρικής και των Τομέων της
• Chapter 15: An Episode in the Historiography of Malaria in the Ancient World
• Chapter 16: Medical Dialogue in the Books on Dietetics in the De medicina: Celsus Τaking Αccount of the Patient as a Friend and Individual
• Chapter 17: The Contribution of the 4th Century North African Physician, Helvius Vindicianus
• Part V: Surgery
• Chapter 18: Back to Basics: Surgeons’ Knives in the Roman World
• Chapter 19: Alexander’s Wounds as a Paradigm for War Surgery
• Chapter 20: Surgery in Byzantium
• Chapter 21: Plastic Surgery of the Face in Byzantine Times
• Part VI: Medicaments and Cures
• Chapter 22: The Headache Remedies of the Pseudo-Apuleius. A Modern Reappraisal
• Chapter 23: Compound Medicines in Antiquity: a First Approach
• Chapter 24: Lemnian Earth, Alum and Astringency: a Field-based Approach
• Chapter 25: Ancient Desires to Shape Progeny: the Role of Vision and Soul in Greek and Jewish Sources of Late Antiquity
• Chapter 26: Medicine and Spas in the Roman Period: the Role of Doctors in Εstablishments with Mineral-Medicinal Waters
• Part VII: Skeletal Remains
• Chapter 27: Health Care and Survival of a Child with Cranial Trauma at Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain)
• Chapter 28: A Multidisciplinary Approach for the Study of the 11th–15th century AD Human Skeletal Remains from Palaion Demarheion, Nicosia, Cyprus
• 1st International CAPP Symposium ‘New Approaches to Archaeological Human remains in Cyprus’
• Chapter 29: Introduction to the Cyprus Ancient Population Project (CAPP) and the First CAPP Symposium
• Chapter 30: My Side of the Mountain: Initial Colonisation and Biological Regionalism on Cyprus through the Neolithic and Chalcolithic
• Chapter 31: Ante-mortem Tooth Loss in Chalcolithic Populations of Cyprus: Comparisons between Cemetery and Settlement
• Chapter 32: A Preliminary Look at the Health Status of Chalcolithic Populations: Inferences from Linear Enamel Hypoplasias
• Chapter 33: A Preliminary Analysis of Trauma Patterns in Early Christian Cyprus
• Part VIII: Asklepios and Incubation
• Chapter 34: The Development of the Practice of Incubation in the Ancient World
• Chapter 35: The Authority of Physicians as Dream Interpreters in the Pergamene Asclepieion
• Chapter 36: Asclepius the Divine Healer, Asclepius the Divine Physician: Epiphanies as Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tools
• Chapter 37: Ὁ Ξενὼν τοῦ Ἁγίου Δημητρίου: Εἰκονογραφικὰ Ζητήματα
• Chapter 38: Πληροφορίες Ιατρικού Ενδιαφέροντος σε Πηγές του Κανονικού Δικαίου
• Chapter 39: Ασθένειες όπως Περιγράφονται σε Βίους Ιαματικών Αγίων και Τρόποι Θεραπείας αυτών
• Part IX: Byzantine, Arab and Medieval Sources
• Chapter 40: The Role of the Egyptian Sea and Land Routes in the Justinian Plague: the Case of Pelusium
• Chapter 41: Du Diagnostic différential aux Thérapies prudentes : Le traité de la rougeole et de la variole de Râzî
• Chapter 42: The Ancient Background of Witelo’s Theory of Vision