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  1. Athenaeus of Attaleia on the Elements of Medicine.David Leith - forthcoming - Apeiron.
    Athenaeus of Attaleia (fl. mid-first century BC) offers a fascinating example of the interest among Graeco-Roman physicians in marking out the boundaries between medicine and philosophy. As founder of the so-called Pneumatist medical sect, he was deeply influenced by contemporary Stoicism. A number of surviving ancient testimonia tell us that he held a distinctive view on the question of how far medicine should analyse the composition of the human body. Rather than having recourse to the Stoic cosmic elements fire, air, (...)
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  • Notes on the Text of John of Alexandria.R. J. Hankinson - 1990 - Classical Quarterly 40 (2):585-591.
    John of Alexandria is an obscure figure. Little is known of his life: hisfloruitis placed in the first half of the seventh century A.D. He was a practising doctor; the exact significance of the epithet ‘sophista’ which is found on the superscription to his commentary on the sixth book of Hippocrates'Epidemicsis uncertain: but itmayindicate an interest beyond the purely medical. Apart from the commentaries on theEpidemicsandDe Sectis, the only other work ascribed to him with any certainty is a commentary on (...)
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  • Causing doubts: Diodorus Cronus and herophilus of chalcedon on causality.David Leith - 2014 - Classical Quarterly 64 (2):592-608.
    The physician Herophilus of Chalcedon, who lived and worked in Alexandria in the early third centuryb.c., is best known and justly celebrated for his numerous and ground-breaking anatomical discoveries and advances in such areas as pulse theory. His systematic investigations into the human body led to some of the highest achievements of Hellenistic science, among which the best known is probably his discovery and detailed description of the nervous system and its functions. Yet certain aspects of his thought have seemed (...)
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  • Notes on the Text of John of Alexandria.R. J. Hankinson - 1990 - Classical Quarterly 40 (02):585-.
    John of Alexandria is an obscure figure. Little is known of his life: his floruit is placed in the first half of the seventh century A.D. He was a practising doctor; the exact significance of the epithet ‘sophista’ which is found on the superscription to his commentary on the sixth book of Hippocrates' Epidemics is uncertain: but it may indicate an interest beyond the purely medical. Apart from the commentaries on the Epidemics and De Sectis, the only other work ascribed (...)
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