Health, Harm, and the Civic Body: Medical Language in the Speeches of Demosthenes

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  • Allison E. Das The Kinkaid School

Abstract

Demosthenes supports his policies by depicting the Athenians as sick with the disease of political apathy, and in particular uses the Hippocratic concept of prognosis as a forensic argument.

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Published

2019-08-27

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Vol. 59 No. 3 (2019)

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