title: Structure and style in the Hippocratic treatise Prorrheticon 2.
abstract: Bearing in mind both the capacity of man and his limits, the author of Prorrheticon 2 states his opposition to irrational prognoses and brings forward the sêmeia as the only basis for a correct prognostic. He does so by enhancing his statements by means of structure (ring-composition, psychological structure of recurrence) and style: in this field he uses several devices aimed to attract the reader's attention, putting together colloquial and high-level expressions. In this paper a similar stylistic technique is intended in order to illustrate the points of the Greek author.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: García Novo
mesh_terms: D000076145:Greece, Ancient; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D008374:Manuscripts, Medical as Topic / Q000266:history*; D010680:Philology / Q000266:history*; D010686:Philosophy, Medical / Q000266:history*; D011379:Prognosis