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The hallmark of anonymity. Questions of authorship in the Hippocratic Corpus, specifically regarding the so-called ‘Author C’ (2020)

Technai, An International Journal for Ancient Science and Technology
Volume: 11
Pages: 49-76
Publication date: 2020
Language: English

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Since Émile Littré’s edition, particular attention has been paid to a group of Hippocratic treatises, "On Generation/On the Nature of the Child" + "On Diseases 4," which show a significant range of affinities and common elements in language, style, content, and thought. Studies by Hermann Grensemann in the 1980s contributed to further philological analysis of the peculiar traits of the so-called Hippocratic ‘author C’, widening the field of investigation, to include gynaecological treatises such as "On Diseases of Women 1-2" as well as parts of "On Infertile Women." Recently, new light has also been shed by Elizabeth Craik (in her 2009 edition of "On Glands") on the historical and cultural setting in which the work of the anonymous physician is to be placed. This paper aims firstly to summarise the state of research on ‘author C’, discussing the criteria which scholars have used to define and date his work, and paying particular attention to the general question of authorship in the specific context of the Hippocratic tradition. In the second part of the essay, I present the results of an in-depth lexicographical analysis of two terms (ἀΐσσω and its compounds; εὐρυχωρίη/στενοχωρίη with corresponding verbal forms) which are characteristic of the author’s language. Further, I compare author C’s nosological theory, as presented in "On Diseases 4," with the nosology of the physician Aegimius of Elis, as presented in the doxography of Anonymus Londiniensis (xiii 21-47).

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