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…
The Two Volumes that make up the Syntopicon comprise a distinctive kind of index. The term "syntopicon" means a collection of topics. In these two volumes there are nearly 3000 topics parceled out …
Homer is not a man known to have existed, to whom the authorship of the Iliad and Odyssey is imputed. Homer is the author of the Homeric poems, a hypothesis constructed to account for their existen…