Thomas R
Royal Holloway, University of London.
Stud Anc Med. 2004;27:175-85.
This paper considers questions of transmission and circulation of knowledge between Greeks and Babylonians, and in particular within the medical sphere. It compares evidence for the extensive exchange of goods and ideas with the Near East in the archaic period and considers the channels and means of transmission involved. It suggests, however, that the evidence of Hippocratic medicine and of Herodotus implies that interaction in the medical sphere followed the main areas of contact through trade and colonisation, and above all Egypt, rather than Mesopotamia. Contact with Babylonian wisdom was to reappear only in the late classical and Hellenistic period.
本文探讨了希腊人和巴比伦人之间知识的传播与流通问题，尤其是在医学领域内。它将古风时期希腊与近东地区广泛的商品和思想交流的证据进行了比较，并思考了其中涉及的传播渠道和方式。然而，文章指出，希波克拉底医学和希罗多德的记载表明，医学领域的互动遵循了通过贸易和殖民建立的主要接触区域，尤其是埃及，而非美索不达米亚。与巴比伦智慧的接触直到古典晚期和希腊化时期才再次出现。
