On Ancient Medicine, On the Art, On Breaths, On the Nature of Human
Beings and On the Sacred Disease are among the most well-known and
sophisticated works of the Hippocratic Collection. The authors of
these treatises were seeking to find means to express their
arguments that built on authoritative models of their predecessors.
By examining the range of expressive resources used in their
expository prose, James Cross demonstrates how oral tradition and
written techniques, such as sound patterning, sign-posting and
antithetical formulae, were deployed to help the writers develop a
case. The book demonstrates that there were various layers of
meaning and manners of communicating ideas which can be found in
Hippocratic expository prose, and offers fresh insights into the
oral debating culture and experiments in persuasion which
characterise the ancient Greek world of the late fifth-century BCE.
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