Greek History

Ancient Greek Music a New Technical History

By the middle of the third century BC, from which the first preserved documents of ancient Greek written music date,1 musical notation was already firmly established; it had acquired much of the inner structure that emerges from the full account given in Alypius’ handbook, compiled perhaps half a millennium later. Thus we are not in a position to directly observe the evolution of this system ou...

Greek Association of the History of Medicine

bifurcation of the carotid artery (carotid sinus) may provoke reflex bradycardia, fall of blood pressure and fainting.8 Hippocrates, Galen and Mattheus Curtius also observed that it was not the compression of the arteries in the neck, but of their bifurcation (carotid sinus) that might induce fainting or sleep. I therefore agree with the suggestion of Balourdas that ifthe old Greek physicians o...

A structural pattern in Greek dietetics and the early history of Greek medicine.

INTRODUCTION Early Greek medicine-the medicine actually practised by Greek doctors of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. and reflected in various texts of the Hippocratic Corpushas two noticeable characteristics. In its nosology it conceives of disease as a process, which runs a predictable course, reaching a crisis which "determines" or "decides" the recovery or death ofthe patient.1 In its t...

Commentary: Greek Legal History—Its Functions and Potentialities

Greek and Indian Cosmology: Review of Early History

Greek and Indian traditions have profoundly influenced modern science. Geometry, physics, and biology of the Greeks; arithmetic, algebra, and grammar of the Indians; and astronomy, philosophy, and medicine of both have played a key role in the creation of knowledge. The interaction between the Indians and the Greeks after the time of Alexander is well documented, but can we trace this interacti...