Article ID: CBB845868682

Dates and measures: history and some Hippocratic texts (2020)

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This paper begins with discussion of the dating of "Epidemics" 1 and 3 and argues for the period ca. 471-467 b.c. for the timespan that they encompass. It then moves on to consideration of the Aeginetan and Attic weight-standards that are specified in a number of Hippocratic texts, and considers their value both for dating and determining the place of composition of layers of the texts in question. It is also suggested that the standards in question are coin-standards, and that the author(s) of these passages envisaged the use of coins in the practical activity of weighing out the substances for which they are specified.

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Authors & Contributors
Jouanna, Jacques
Lorusso, Vito
Overwien, Oliver
Pietrobelli, Antoine
Raiola, Tommaso
Witt, Mathias
Concepts
Medicine
Ecdotics; source study (methodology)
Linguistics; philology
Manuscripts
Hippocratic medicine
Greek language
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
Places
Byzantium
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