Theophrastus' biological opuscula and the Hippocratic Corpus: a critical dialogue?
Recent work on Theophrastus' biological opuscula opens new perspectives on the still obscure relations between this author and the Hippocratic writings. The three short treatises On Fatigue, On Sweat, On Dizziness, present unquestionable resemblances with many Hippocratic notions, but still more differences from them. This suggests a possible critical dialogue, using allusions to, and substitutions from, certain Hippocratic writings such as Regimen. Reading such writings in the light of the Theophrastean material reveals in them such important themes as differences and causes, which coincide with Theophrastus' own epistemological interests and which may have played some role in his research.
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