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1. Howard University English Department Room 256 BKH, second floor, 24006th St NW Washington, D.C. USA
Abstract
AbstractThe paper explores the interrelations between Pindar, Heraclitus and the Hippocratic author with regard to ideas of the body, the soul and dreams. I shall consider Pindar’s fr.131b as an overlooked testimony of the poet’s interest in a non-Homeric conceptualization of the soul. I will suggest reading Heraclitus’ fragments B26 and B21 together and offer a new interpretation of the latter. Furthermore, I will compare Pindar’s fr. 131b with the HippocraticOn Regimen(4. 86, 87) and Pindar’s fr. 133 withOn Regimen(4. 92) respectively, in order to highlight unnoticed similarities.
Subject
History and Philosophy of Science,Philosophy
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