Historical overview of spinal deformities in ancient Greece

Historical overview of spinal deformities in ancient Greece

Little is known about the history of spinal deformities in ancient Greece. The present study summarizes what we know today for diagnosis and management of spinal deformities in ancient Greece, mainly from the medical treatises of Hippocrates and Galen. Hippocrates, through accurate observation and logical reasoning was led to accurate conclusions firstly for the structure of the spine and secon...

Towards historical cognitive science: the case of Ancient Greece

This study rests on the two basic ideas: that there has been a visible development of cognitive skills from the Antiquity to nowadays, and that the text analysis is the only way to bring it out. The author addresses the three eminent works: Euclid’s Elements and the historical treatises by Herodotus and Thucydides to reveal the notable peculiarities of the Ancient Greeks’ cognitive style in com...

mythology of governance in ancient greece: ‘an essay on historical epistemology of the public’

the present article aims to explicate the difference between perceptions of conceptual relations governing the public in different eras. therefore, this can be achieved through considering ancient greece as the birthplace of western traditions and deciphering the mythological meaning of governance in that era. to this end, it takes advantage of a hermeneutical-historical point of view to review...

Plants in Ancient Greece

Suicide in ancient Greece.

The theme of suicide appears several times in ancient Greek literature. However, each such reference acquires special significance depending on the field from which it originates. Most of the information found in mythology, but the suicide in a mythological tale, although in terms of motivation and mental situation of heroes may be in imitation of similar incidents of real life, in fact is link...