HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Frontier City, Ancient Greek Medicine, Comparative Anatomy
20 Sep 2016
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The medical world of galen: greek medicine after hippocrates. Defeats the persian in the persian empire. Continues all the way into what"s now afghanistan before his troops say let"s go home. He goes to babylon first on his way home and then he dies there. The breakup of alexander"s empire occurs in babylon. Successor-states to alexander: the hellenistic kingdoms (4th 1st century. Alexander the great named a lot of cities after him. Alexandria was designed to be a greek city. Egyptians were forbidden to go into it at the beginning. There are greeks who are away from greece. It is a city with no traditions. Sensitive to the idea of hubris (the sin of going too far) The conditions for dissection in alexandria were very different. He is interested in science and material world and system building. General theory of natural processes aristotle builds this theory. You use this theory to understand everything.
