HIST 449 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nogais, Environmental Determinism, Iliad
9 Jun 2018
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HIST 449- Jan 23/18
How Hippocrates Thinks About Disease Continued
Recall last lecture: There are characteristics that accompany different directions of
air; the direction of air that hits a city will affect the dominant season and health of
citizens
The same goes with water
Part 1: How does geography and climate influence people? Asia vs. Europe.
Water
• Bad water: stagnant, low and thick
• Good water: moving, high and sparkling
Seasons
• Questions about seasons are arise in this inquiry of environmental
determinism
• Why do wet springs lead to disease in the summer?
• Why does a warm wet winter followed by a cold and dry spring lead to
paralysis?
• Why do wet summers produce dysentery and diarrhea?
• Currently talking from Airs, Water and Places
Person: Herodotus
• How did he envision the world?
• There is Europe, which is composed of the celts, Iberia, the Thracians and the
Scythians (Scythians north of the black sea), this area is modern day
southern and eastern Europe
• There is Asia, which is located in modern day middle east. This has Assyria
and Persia
• And finally there is Libya which is modern day northern Africa. Libya has
Arabia and Ethiopians. Beyond these regions there is simply sea. Libya is
surrounded by the Austral and Erythrean Sea.
• North of Greece there is Thrace, north of the Caspian sea of Nogays and all of
this area is Scythia
Hippocratic ethnographies
• Asia is the best environment to live in, but why is then that Asians are not the
best people?
• What is the relationship between the way that a person is raised and the
environment that they are raised in to the way that they turn out? Classic
nature vs. nurture question.
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