HIST 449 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Iliad, Trojan War, Exalted
9 Jun 2018
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HIST 449- Jan 11/18
Pre-Hippocratic Medicine
Millers argument (article for this week)- writing makes thought visible, idea of
seeing that cannot be seen
Hippocrates epitaph- Hippocrates did medicine not by chance but by art
Part 1: The Iliad and the Odyssey and types of healers in such stories
The Iliad, Homer
• Approx. 800 BCE, describes a world of 1300 BCE of the Mycenae
• Heroic age of the past
• Trojan war, the actors are the ancestors of his patrons
• Values of classical Greece
• Guide to life and poetry- Thamus-how to do things right
• Full of gods, but not a religious work
• Both gods and humans are people and there are many ways to die
You can die
• Violently
• In combat (best way to die)
• Disease (techadon)
• Chronic wasting
• Death by divine intention (usually Apollo or artemis)
• Grief
Violent death in Battle
Re: Text 1 in dossier
• Spear through buttocks and he bladder was pierced
• I this realistic?
• There is a gap in the pelvic girdle, so potentially?
• This is anatomically correct
• But others disagree and think youd have to go through the hip
• Greek fascination with the interior of the body
• Egyptians also interested, think of it as a river from mouth to anus
• Bladder stones allow for discovery of bladder location- associated with male
malnutrition
Gods treating wounds
• Apollo is chief healing god
• Apollo also sends sickness
• The Iliad 16.514-529
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Document Summary
Millers argument (article for this week)- writing makes thought visible, idea of seeing that cannot be seen. Hippocrates epitaph- (cid:494)hippocrates did medicine not by chance but by art(cid:495) Part 1: the iliad and the odyssey and types of healers in such stories. In combat (best way to die: violently, disease (techadon, chronic wasting, death by divine intention (usually apollo or artemis, grief. Gods treating wounds: apollo is chief healing god, apollo also sends sickness, the iliad 16. 514-529, quasi-magical healing. Warriors treating wounds: achilles, patrolus helping europylos, machadon is a healer and warrior, patroculus can help europylos and dies a written in the iliad. Non-warrior healers: not as much praise as warrior-physicians, women are alluded to as healers, women and herbs. Hippocratic biographical sources: contemporaries- plato, aristotle, inscription, rhetorical fictions- speech of the envoy, address of the altar, letters of hippocrates, biography of siranus of cos, galen, latin medieval sources.
