Diet and health in classical times

Authors

  • José Antonio García González

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/BAETICA.2010.v0i32.137

Keywords:

Diet, Health, Greek medicine, Vth century B.C., Corpus Hippocraticum

Abstract

The dietetics constituted one of the principal bases of the Greek medicine, both at explanatory and therapeutic level. The concept of diet is necessary to understand it not only as a nutritive regime, but rather as the way of life and the proper reality of the individual in all his complexity.

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References

Arifrón de Sición, Pean a la Salud, PMG 813; Traducción de F. Rodríguez Adrados, BCG, Lírica Griega Arcaica, Madrid 1986, 455.

Dittmer, H.L., Konstitutionstypen im Cormpus Hippocraticum, Dis. Inaug. (Jena, 1940. Véase también Alemberg, N., Studier över tempermntläran i Corpus Hippocraticum, Lunds Univ. Arsskr., 46, 1 (Lund, 1950)

Hdt, II, 77, 2-3.

Hdt, III, 131.

Laín Entralgo, P., La medicina hipocrática, Madrid 1970, 157-162.

W.D. Smith, The Development of Classical Dietetic Theory, en Hippocratica, Paris 1980, 439-448.

Published

2015-05-19

How to Cite

García González, J. A. (2015). Diet and health in classical times. BAETICA. Estudios De Historia Moderna Y Contemporánea, (32), 157–176. https://doi.org/10.24310/BAETICA.2010.v0i32.137

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Histórico