Reception of Herodotus, Ctesias and Xenophon on Galen
Abstract
Galen cites the three historians collected in this paper (Herodotus, Ctesias and Xenophon) as an argument of authority, or in support of theories and practices, medical or otherwise (as the damage that snow causes in the eyes, and of the importance of beauty), or as a guarantee of special terms little used in the second century AD.
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