The Europe-Asia Antithesis in the Hippocratic Treatise On the airs, Waters, Places as Scientific Image and Mythical Heritage. A Short Chapter from the History of Ideas

Abstrakt

The article tries to interpret the dichotomous continental outlook of the author of the Hippocratic treatise De aëre, aquis, locis as embedded in the preceding tradition of Greek thought (philosophical, historical, cartographical and geometrical), but decisively transformed by a specific way of argumentation, which is present in the treatises of the Corpus Hippocraticum.

Klíčová slova

• Greek thought
• Hippocratic treatises
• De aëre aquis locis
• Europe-Asia antithesis
• way of argumentation