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Hippocrates Electric, with Jo Brown and Helen King | Classics Confidential

The new episode of Classics Confidential discusses modern perception of Hippocrates and his works. Hippocrates is traditionally seen as the ‘Father of Medicine’. But scholars now doubt whether any of the treatises in the so-called Hippocratic Corpus are in fact … Continue reading

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RED video: Reading experiences across the world

Have you ever wondered what readers across time and space thought of the books they were reading? If men read differently from women, or if great historical events, such as the outbreak of the First World War, changed the way people approached … Continue reading

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New from Classics Confidential: In the Shadow of Hellenistic Medicine, with Daniela Manetti

This week’s Classics Confidential interview features Professor Daniela Manetti from the University of Florence. Professor Manetti has published on a wide variety of ancient medical texts, but in this conversation she focuses on the intriguing papyrus fragment known as the Anonymus Londinensis, … Continue reading

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