Book contents
- Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World
- Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Timeline
- Historical Contexts
- Introduction
- Part I The Deep Past
- Part II The Bronze Age
- Part III The Iron Age
- 12 Naunakhte
- 13 Herse
- 14 Pkpupes
- 15 Atossa
- 16 The Princess of Vix
- 17 Aristonice
- 18 Neaira
- 19 Phanostrate
- Part IV The Hellenistic Worlds
- Part V The Age of Empire
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
19 - Phanostrate
from Part III - The Iron Age
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 January 2023
- Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World
- Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Timeline
- Historical Contexts
- Introduction
- Part I The Deep Past
- Part II The Bronze Age
- Part III The Iron Age
- 12 Naunakhte
- 13 Herse
- 14 Pkpupes
- 15 Atossa
- 16 The Princess of Vix
- 17 Aristonice
- 18 Neaira
- 19 Phanostrate
- Part IV The Hellenistic Worlds
- Part V The Age of Empire
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
When we think of ancient medicine, we might think first of the Greek tradition beginning with Hippocrates and probably then of Galen in Roman times. Hippocrates stands at the beginning of the western medical tradition and we have a collection of texts attributed to him known as the Hippocratic Corpus.1 The Hippocratic Oath, a statement of professionalism, was still regularly taken by newly qualified doctors until fairly recently, albeit in a modified form. Galen achieved fame in Roman times as an extraordinarily learned and intellectual doctor, a collector and editor of medical texts, a public performer of medicine and sometimes gruesome experiments, and doctor to the rich and famous.2 His influence was felt deep into medieval times. Yet these are only two men in a very long tradition, and the world of health and medicine was a world in which women too played a vital, if not always so visible, role.
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- Women in the Ancient Mediterranean WorldFrom the Palaeolithic to the Byzantines, pp. 155 - 160Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023