Rosalind Thomas is Reader in Ancient History at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens (1989 HB 0521350255; 1991 PB 0521425182) and Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece (1992/HB 0521373468; PB 0521377420).
Acknowledgements
References and texts
1. Introduction
2. Medicine and the ethnography of health
3. Dividing the world: Europe, Asia, Greeks and barbarians
4. Nomos is king: nomos, environment and ethnic character in Herodotus
5. 'Wonders' and the natural world: natural philosophy and historie
6. Argument and the language of proof
7. Polemic and persuasion
8. Performance, competitive display and apodeixis
9. Epilogue
Appendix. beavers and female ailments
Bibliography
Indexes.
