Medicine and Society in Ptolemaic EgyptCurrent questions on whether Hellenistic Egypt should be understood in terms of colonialism and imperialism, multicultural separatism, or integration and syncretism have never been closely studied in the context of healing. Yet illness affects and is affected by nutrition, disease and reproduction within larger questions of demography, agriculture and environment. It is crucial to every socio-economic group, all ages, and both sexes; perceptions and responses to illness are ubiquitous in all kinds of evidence, both Greek and Egyptian and from archaeology to literature. Examing all forms of healing within the specific socioeconomic and environmental constraints of the Ptolemies’ Egypt, this book explores how linguistic, cultural and ethnic affiliations and interactions were expressed in the medical domain. |
Contents
Chapter One Greeks and Egyptians | 1 |
Chapter Two Medicine and the Gods | 45 |
Chapter Three Theoretical Perspectives | 101 |
Chapter Four Responses to Illness | 141 |
Chapter Five Identifying Medical Practitioners | 205 |
Chapter Six Medicine in Alexandria | 243 |
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Alexandria Amenhotep amulets Ancient Egypt Asklepios attested Clarysse classical period cleruchs context cult ocials cultural cure Deir el-Bahari Deir el-Medina demotic dicult diferent Diodoros disease dissection doctors dream drugs Ebers efects Egyp Egyptian medicine Egyptian texts elite Erasistrateans Erasistratos evidence example extant Fayum Galen god’s gods Greco-Roman Greece Greek and Egyptian Greek medicine healers healing Hellenistic period Herodotos Herophileans Herophilos Hippocrates Hippocratic iatroi identied illness Imhotep incubation individuals ingredients inscriptions inuence Isis kind king Kühn Late period Littré magic medical papyri medical texts Memphis mummies necropolis Nile Nunn ofered oracle oracular ostrakon papyrus patients pharaonic physicians poppy practice practitioners priest probably Ptolemaic Egypt Ptolemaic era Ptolemaic period purging recipes remedies ritual Roman period rst century sacred Sakhmet sanctuary Saqqara Sarapieon Sarapis second century signicant specic Staden status stele Strabo swnw temple Theophrastos theory third century tian tion tradition translation village κα τν