Some aspects of medicine in the Greek Bronze age.

INTRODUCTION CIVILIZATION rose to two great heights in ancient Greece, namely in the Bronze age and in the later Classical period. In the latter medicine advanced considerably and culminated in the work of Hippocrates. Knowledge of medicine in the Greek Bronze age depended on the study of Homer until this century, when work in the fields of archaeology and philology provided more facts. This work has shown that this early Greek medicine had much in common with that of its contemporary Near Eastern civilizations. It does not give any indication of the later developments in Greece which were to take medicine to a much higher level than that practised in Egypt and Mesopotamia. CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 5,000 B.C. Neolithic. 2,800 B.C. The Beginning of the Greek Bronze Age. 1600 B.C. Linear A. 1450 B.C. Linear B. 1400 B.C. Destruction of Knossos. 1230 B.C. Sack of Troy. 1200 B.C. Sack of Pylos. 1100 B.C. Sack of Mycenae. End of Bronze Age. 730 B.C. Homeric poems written.