Homer and His Age

Homer, His Art and His World [Review]

Homer Smith: his contribution to physiology.

F or three decades, from the mid1930s until his death in 1962, Homer Smith was the preeminent figure among those interested in the physiology of the kidney. His leadership reflected not only the seminal research contributions of Smith and his colleagues and the conceptual framework that he developed, but also the extraordinary lucidity that he brought to the exposition of work in renal physiolo...

Homer Smith: his contribution to the practice of nephrology.

A generation of renal physiologists and clinical nephrologists owe their expertise to the direct influence of Homer W. Smith. Working with him In his laboratory, conferring with him personally, or corresponding through the malls, young would-be scientists worldwide were molded by him into investigators. teachers, and practitioners of renal medicine. A remarkable feature of Smith’s great influen...

The Art of Medicine in the Age of Homer

Last autumn, as you will remember, men invalided with dysentery from the Peninsula of Gallipoli came in large numbers into English military hospitals. As they grew better they had much to tell of Mudros and of the fighting on the northern shores of the Dardanelles. Their stories called up memories of another and more successful expedition which gathered in the great Bay of Lemnos three thousand...

Homer and Hesiod

One of the most frustrating aspects of Homeric studies is that so little literary material outside the Homeric corpus itself survives to enhance our understanding of the cultural landscape of the period. Recent scholarship suggests that a large and diverse poetic tradition lay behind the figure we refer to as "Homer," but little of it survives. Indeed we have little continuous written Greek for...