Thucydides on the plague: Physiology of flux and fixation

Classical Quarterly

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 102-108

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EID: 48749132426     PISSN: 00098388     EISSN: 14716844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cq/51.1.102     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. For general treatments of this relationship, see K. Weidauer, Thukydides und die hippokratischen Schriften (Heidelberg, 1953/4)
2. C. Lichtenthaeler, Thucydide et Hippocrate vus par un historien-medecin (Geneva, 1965)
3. and G. Rechenauer, Thukydides und die hippokratische Medizin (Hildesheim, 1991). In the course of useful comments, one of the CQ referees invited speculation on the implications of the findings presented in this paper for this relationship: some tentative suggestions are accordingly incorporated. I am grateful to both referees for their careful reading
4. D. L. Page, 'Thucydides' description of the great plague at Athens', CQ 3 (1953), 97-119
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7. See also W. Nestle, 'Hippocratica', Hermes 73 (1938), 1-38
8. S. L. Radt, 'Zu Thukydides' Pestbeschreibung', Mnemosyne 31 (1978), 233-45
9. C. Lichtenthaeler, Hermes 107 (1979), 270-86
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13. J. W. Allison, 'Pericles' policy and the plague', Historia 32 (1983), 14-23
14. also O. Wenskus, reviewing Hornblower comm., Gnomon 62 (1990), 577-9
15. J. C. F. Poole and A. J. Holladay, 'Thucydides and the plague of Athens', CQ 29 (1979), 282-301
16. A. J. Holladay, 'New developments in the problem of the Athenian plague', CQ 38 (1988), 247-50
17. See also J. Longrigg, 'Epidemic, ideas and classical Athenian society', in T. Ranger and P. Slack (edd.), Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence (Cambridge, 1992), 21-44, esp. 36 with n. 15
18. See A. Roselli, 'Some remarks about the account of symptoms in Diseases II and Internal Affections', in La maladie et et les malades dans la Collection Hippocratique, CIH VI Proceedings (Quebec, 1990), 159-70, on the important place of symptoms in the description and classification of diseases
19. also W. D. Smith, 'Analytical and catalogue structure in the corpus Hippocraticum', ibid. 277-84, on the prevalence of cataloguing rather than reasoned argument in archaic medical texts
20. See E. M. Craik, Hippocrates: Places in Man (Oxford, 1998), 16 and 131-43, esp. 132
21. On these terms in Anat., see E. M. Craik, 'The Hippocratic treatise On Anatomy', CQ 48 (1998), 135-67, at 141-2 and 153
22. The possibility that Thucydides met Democritus and Hippocrates in the Abdera region is explored by D. Procter, The Experience of Thucydides (Warminster, 1980), 40-1
23. and cf. J.-E. Dugand, 'Hippocrate à Thasos et en Gréce du nord' in Corpus Hippocraticum, CIH II Proceedings (Mons, 1977), at 233-5