2018/05/01 by Laura Rosella Schluderer · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · Psychology · #Classical Philosophy and Thought #Classical Antiquity Studies #Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies #Hippocratic Oath #Context (archaeology) #Microcosm #Philosophy #Cosmos (plant) #Literature #Classics #Art #Psychology #History #Art history #Archaeology #Geology #Paleontology
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openalex publication_date 2018/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Despite its often daunting obscurity, the ‘Hippocratic’ treatise De Victu is a text of particular interest, not only because it presents the first clear formulation in an entirely preserved Greek text of the microcosm–macrocosm relationship but also for the sophisticated use it makes of this pervasive pattern of Greek thought in the context of dietetics.