Plutarch lived in the time of the emperors Nerva, Trajan, and Hadrian, a time usually thought of as the beginning of the best age of the Roman imperial period and as the last great era of Greek and…
Our knowledge of the historical Hippocrates is almost completely depent upon Plato. From the Protagoras and the Phaedrus we learn that Hippocrates was a contemporary of Socrates, that he was a nati…