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Hippocratic recipes: Oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth- and fourth-century Greece

Hippocratic Recipes is the first extended study of the pharmacological recipes included in the Hippocratic Corpus - some 1500 in total. These recipes have a complex transmission history and are often difficult to interpret. Since the material is not translated into English, the monograph provides translations, and at times new editions. The material included in the monograph was examined from both from a philological and a historical point of view, developing a methodology that borrows from anthropology, studies on orality and literacy, economic history, and gender history. The resulting study is over 100,000 words in length