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Cover 1 Title 4 Table of Contents 6 Acknowledgements 8 List of Contributors 10 Abbreviations and Sigla 14 Introduction 20 Part 1: Prices and Exchange 32 1. The Cost of Health: Rich and Poor in Imperial Rome 32 2. Healing Correspondence: Letters and Remedy Exchange in the Graeco-Roman World 48 3. Dioscorides on Beavers 68 4. The Cost of a Baby: How Much Did It Cost to Hire a Wet-Nurse in Roman Egypt? 72 Part 2: Pluralism and Diversity 102 5. A Return to Cases and the Pluralism of Ancient Medical Traditions 102 6. Malaria, Childbirth and the Cult of Artemis 118 7. Medicine, Markets and Movement in the Bronze Age Mediterranean 132 8. Antistius Medicus and the Ides of March 144 9. Notes on the Three Asclepiadean Doctors 158 10. Hippocratic Whispers: Telling the Story of the Life of Hippocrates on the Internet 174 Bibliography 192 Bibliography of Vivian Nutton’s Works 218 Index 232

Author

Rebecca Flemming;Laurence Totelin;

Language

EN