The science in ancient Greece and Rome

Chapter 1

Medical thought and practice in the Hippocratic treatises

Armelle Debru

• 1. Hippocrates and his writings

• 2. Hippocratic medicine in its context: medicine and religion

• 3. Hippocratic medicine in its context: medicine and philosophy

• 4. Hippocratic concepts and methods

• 5. Nosology

• 6. Therapies

• 7. The medical art and its ethics

Chapter 2

Medicine in the Hellenistic–Roman world

Heinrich von Staden

• 1. Social, political, and religious contexts

• 2. Herophilos

• 3. Erasistratos

• 4. The Empiricists

• 5. The disappearance of systematic human dissection and the medical “schools”

• 6. The early reception of Greek medicine in Rome

• 7. Asklepiades of Bithynia

• 8. From Asklepiades to the early Methodists

• 9. Aulus Cornelius Celsus and the emergence of Latin medical literature

• 10. Pharmacology in the early Roman Empire: Dioscorides, Scribonius Largus, and others

• 11. The Ephesians: Rufus of Ephesos and Soranos of Ephesos

• 12. The tenacity of heterogeneity and competition

Chapter 3

Pliny, the encyclopaedic tradition, and Mirabilia

Mary Beagon

• 1. Introduction

• 2. Latin agrimensores: Cato, Varro, and Columella

• 3. Pliny and the peculiarities of the encyclopaedia

• 4. The zoological tradition

Chapter 4

Galen

Mario Vegetti

• 1. The Galen exception

• 2. An exemplary biography

• 3. Galen’s project for the reunification of medicine

• 4. The system of medical knowledge

• 5. System closures and openings

Chapter 5

The mathematics of the 5th century

Reviel Netz

• 1. The problem of origins

• 2. Mathematics as a discipline

• 3. The content of mathematics

Chapter 6

Euclid and the mathematics of the 4th century

Reviel Netz

• 1. Mathematical topics of the 4th century

• 2. Euclid

Chapter 7

Archimedes

Reviel Netz

• 1. The sphere and the circle

• 2. Mechanical mathematics

• 3. New items

• 4. The Archimedean games

Chapter 8

Geometry from Apollonius to Eutocius

Reviel Netz

• 1. Apollonius and the conic sections

• 2. Book V of the Conics of Apollonius

• 3. Hypsicles and Book XIV of Elements

• 4. The Collection of Pappus

• 5. Eutocius on The Sphere and the Cylinder

Chapter 9

Diophantus of Alexandria

Roshdi Rashed

• 1. Life

• 2. The works

• 3. Mathematics