CLA219H1 Lecture : Lecture #7 copy.doc
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#1invective- poem which is attacking and aggressive point given for context" - told by hesiod in his works and days (story of promethreus) Lost points for not making a structured argument of the helen issue. Second midterm covers material from after 1st midterm until then. We actually have a lot of theoretical medical writing preserved from antiquity. Modern doctors all take the hippocratic oath - swears to obey certain codes this all goes back to antiquity - named after hippocrates (from island of cos - greek speaking island in mediterranean) We have lots of writing attributed to him, but probably a lot are not authentic. Hippocrates becomes like the prototype of the doctors. We have dozens of treatises under the name of corpus hippocraticum". Corpus" - meaning body (as in body of work) His most read text is the text on the sacred disease" (epilepsy)
