IMITATING THE COSMOS: THE ROLE OF MICROCOSM–MACROCOSM RELATIONSHIPS IN THE HIPPOCRATIC TREATISEON REGIMEN

Abstract

Despite its often daunting obscurity, the ‘Hippocratic’ treatiseDe Victuis a text of particular interest, not only because it presents the first clear formulation in an entirely preserved Greek text of the microcosm–macrocosm relationship but also for the sophisticated use it makes of this pervasive pattern of Greek thought in the context of dietetics.