Sir Geoffrey Lloyd is Master of Darwin College and Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science in the University of Cambridge.
Acknowledgements
ix
Texts and abbreviations
xi
Introduction
1
(6)
Part I The development of zoological taxonomy
7
(51)
Introduction
7
(11)
Social behaviour of animals in Aristotle's zoology
18
(8)
Man as model
26
(18)
Dualisers
44
(9)
Conclusion
53
(5)
Part II The female sex: medical treatment and biological theories in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.
58
(54)
Introduction
58
(4)
The treatment of women in the Hippocratic Corpus
62
(24)
Alternative theories of the female seed
86
(8)
Aristotle on the difference between the sexes
94
(11)
The post-Aristotelian debate and conclusions
105
(7)
Part III Developments in pharmacology, anatomy and gynaecology
112
(89)
Introduction
112
(7)
Theophrastus, the Hippocratics and the root-cutters
119
(16)
Pliny, learning and research
135
(14)
The development of Greek anatomical terminology
149
(19)
The critique of traditional ideas in Soranus's gynaecology
168
(14)
The epistemological theory and practice of Soranus's Methodism
182
(19)
Conclusion: Science, folklore and ideology
201
(17)
Bibliography
218
(21)
Index of passages referred to
239
(17)
General index
256
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