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Character, voice and the limits of dietetics in Hippocrates’ De victu I 36

    Cǎtǎlin Enache

Wiener Studien 129/2016, pp. 71-92, 2016/08/05

Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie, Patristik und lateinische Tradition

doi: 10.1553/wst129s71

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Abstract

In this paper I mainly deal with two questions. Firstly, I examine the human characteristics that cannot be influenced by regimen as presented in ch. I 36 of De victu and especially the reasons why the Hippocratic author placed them outside the reach of dietetics; within this inquiry I will make an excursus on the theory of perception in ch. I 35. Secondly, I analyse the text of the voice analogy and offer an interpretation that suits the author’s intention.