Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and editions -- 1 Hippocratic expository prose -- 2 Models of logos and medical oratory -- 3 Hippocratic epideixis and the orality of medical oratory -- 4 Gorgias, Heraclitus and the persuasive functions of sound in On Breaths -- 5 In the agon: the persuasive functions of antithesis in Hippocratic oratory -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography
Summary
"James Cross is a Tutor in Classical Civilisation at University College London. He completed his PhD in Classics at King's College London. His research focuses on connections between ancient medicine and literature."--Provided by publisher
