# Hippocrates

- id: hippocrates
- name in original script: Ἱπποκράτης
- dates: c. 460 BCE–370 BCE
- roles: author

Physician of Cos and the name under which Greek medicine's founding texts travel. The Aphorisms attributed to him opened medical curricula from Alexandria to Salerno.

## Works in the atlas

- Aphorisms (aphorisms)

## Sources

- Overwien, Oliver (2015). The Paradigmatic Translator and His Method: Hunayn ibn Ishaq's Translation of the Hippocratic Aphorisms from Greek via Syriac into Arabic.