author

Hippocrates Ἱπποκράτης

c. 460 BCE–370 BCE

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 · Aphorismoi

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.