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Cover illustration: “Symphonia Plato”: Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates and Galen play a string quartet. From an anonymous woodcut, 1516, unknown author. Public domain.
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Names: Aristotle Reads Hippocrates (Conference) (2021 : Prague, Czech Republic), creator. | Bartoš, Hynek, editor. | Linka, Vojtěch, 1993- editor.
Title: Aristotle reads Hippocrates / edited by Hynek Bartoš, Vojtěch Linka.
Other titles: Studies in ancient medicine ; v. 59.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024. | Series: Studies in ancient medicine, 0925-1421 ; volume 59 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2024023567 (print) | LCCN 2024023568 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004703537 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004703544 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Aristotle–Congresses. | Aristotle–Sources–Congresses. | Hippocrates–Influence–Congresses. | Medicine, Greek and Roman–Congresses. | Philosophy, Ancient–Congresses. | LCGFT: Conference papers and proceedings.
Classification: LCC B491.M365 A73 2021 (print) | LCC B491.M365 (ebook) | DDC 185–dc23/eng/20240609
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ISSN 0925-1421
ISBN 978-90-04-70353-7 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-70354-4 (e-book)
DOI 10.1163/9789004703544
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