Hippocratic Commentaries in the Greek, Latin, Syriac and Arabic Traditions

Peter E. Pormann, D.Phil. (2002), D.Litt. (2014), both University of Oxford, is Professor of Classics and Graeco-Arabic Studies at the University of Manchester. Recent publications include the Cambridge Companion to Hippocrates (CUP, 2018).

"The published papers in this volume reflect his group’s multilingual and interlingual focus. But they do much more than this. The majority of the papers address three interconnected questions: (1) the boundary between an exegesis and an exposition; (2) how the genre of the source text influences the commentary (notably in the case of surgical texts); and (3) how commentary can serve to canonize an author, and stigmatize other views and interpretations. The result is a collection of essays that is remarkably coherent and focused. (...) Taken as a whole, this is a very satisfying volume, with a thematic unity both unusual in proceedings of this kind, and original." - Faith Wallis, in: BMCR, 2022.09.34

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPeter E. Pormann1 Reflections on Hippocratic CommentaryElizabeth Craik2 Asclepiades of Bithynia as Hippocratic CommentatorDavid Leith3 Sabinus ‘the Hippocratic’: His Exegetical Method in the Commentaries on HippocratesTommaso Raiola4 Galen as Commentator of Commentaries: The Case of the HippocraticEpidemics 1 and 3Jacques Jouanna5 New Fragments of a Commentary on the Oath Attributed to GalenCaroline Magdelaine and Jean-Michel Mouton6 Beyond and behind the Commentary: Galen on Hippocrates on ElementsPeter N. Singer7 Galen the Hippocratic: Textual Analysis and the Practice of CommentaryR.J. Hankinson8 Galen’s Hippocratic ‘Commentary’ on The Capacities of the Soul Depend on the Mixtures of the BodyRalph M. Rosen9 Commenting beyond the Commentary: Galen’s Exegetical Strategies in Difficulties in BreathingDaniela Manetti10 Types of Cranial Injuries in the Hippocratic Wounds in the Head in Light of the Ancient Commentary TraditionMathias Witt11 Galen’s Surgical Commentaries on HippocratesAmneris Roselli12 Galen and Pseudo-Galen in Conversation: Epidemics 2.3.2 and Aphorisms 4.5Véronique Boudon-Millot13 Ancient Medicine in the Galenic Corpus: The Story of a ConcealmentSabrina Grimaudo14 A New Anonymous Prologue to the Commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms in the Harleianus 6295Giulia Ecca15 On the Authorship of the Syriac PrognosticKamran I. Karimullah16 The Latin Commentary by Pedro Jaime Esteve on the Second Book of the Hippocratic Epidemics (Valencia, 1551)María Teresa Santamaría Hernández17 The First Complete Renaissance Commentary on the Hippocratic EpidemicsJesús Ángel y EspinósBibliographyIndex LocorumGeneral Index