Hippocrates by Jacques Jouanna
In view of Hippocrates' exceptional importance in the history of medicine, it seems surprising that our knowledge of his life and career should be so incomplete. Jacques Jouanna contends that a great deal can be concluded about the life and works of Hippocrates. He reveals a man who was a great ancient physician, but also a philosopher of unrecognized ability and consequence who influenced both Plato and Aristotle; a historian who was the equal of Herodotus and Thucydides as a writer and superior to them in his powers of observation and analysis; and a master of tragic narrative who bears comparison with Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, the great playwrights of the classical period.