With the historical-critical context in place, Giorgianni seeks to advance the conversation. Franco Giorgianni offers a lucid history of the research on the so-called Hippocratic “author C,” the long-recognised anonymous authority behind On Generation/On the Nature of the Child and Diseases IV, which also functions as a primer on the main criteria for assigning Hippocratic texts to an “author,” and the troublesome nature of that concept in the ancient world. Having touched on the theme of genre classification in the HC, the collection moves to that of authorship. as pertain to τέχνη) that identify the treatise as “a clear and organic project” (p.44), and draws attention to the parallels between On the Physician, On Fractures, and On Joints with respect, in particular, to “the nexus of correct behaviour and competence” (p.44) common to the surgical texts. Roselli highlights the linguistic patterns (esp. Pétrequin (1847, 1877) and in consonance with twentieth-century scholarship, that the treatise as extant is a unity, striking in its focus and internal coherence, and not a fragment of greater surgical manual. Continuing the focus on short, deontological texts, Amneris Roselli, drawing inspiration from Craik’s exposition of the shorter Hippocratic works, applies her focus to On the Physician. Jouanna’s prefatory salute to multilingualism in Hippocratic studies, welcome in its own regard, is variously attested by the content of his paper. Particular attention is afforded to the Arabic and Medieval Latin traditions from which Jouanna uncovers, among subtler novelties, an entire sentence, with implications for the dating and socio-philosophical context of this “petit joyau” (p.37). The opening paper by Jacques Jouanna-the only non-English inclusion-presents the author’s recent edition of the Law as an example of the fruits one might glean from an inclusive assessment of all the witnesses to a given manuscript tradition. I will discuss the papers in the order they occur. The rough division offered by the editors themselves (p.18) into papers concerned with individual treatises within the HC and those which interrogate some aspect of their broader context applies but is frequently too indistinct to be instructive. No formal arrangement of the papers is in evidence the impression one gets is of a glancing view of contemporary Hippocratic scholarship, wherein minor treatises, textual affinities, and subtleties of context are framed as equally productive ingresses into the Hippocratic Corpus (hereafter HC) and related scholarship. The volume under review collects ten papers presented at a conference in her honour at St Andrews and succeeds in conveying something of the spirit of Craik’s work into a broad array of topics pertaining to the Corpus, its internal (in)consistencies, and its place in the wider context of ancient Greek medicine. Elizabeth Craik’s writings in the domain of Hippocratic medicine, culminating in her invaluable survey, The ‘Hippocratic’ Corpus: Content and Context (Routledge, 2015), are noted for their conscientious approach to a vast, involuted, multifaceted subject, and in particular for their informative attendance to questions of language and date.
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