For almost half a century, Vivian Nutton has been a leading figure in the study of ancient (and less ancient) medicine. The field itself has been revolutionised over that time. In this volume distinguished colleagues and former students develop, in his honour, key themes of his ground-breaking scholarship. Spanning from the Bronze Age to the Digital Age, involving the cult of Artemis and the corpuscular theories of Asclepiades of Bithynia, the medicinal uses of beavers and the cost of health-care and wet-nursing, case-histories, remedy exchange and the medical repercussions of political assassination, this book has at its centre the pluralism and diversity of the ancient medical marketplace. The lively interplay between choice and competition, unity and division, communication and debate, so notable in Vivian Nutton's foundational vision of the world of classical medicine, is richly examined across these pages.



edited by Laurence Totelin and Rebecca Flemming



Acknowledgements List of contributors Abbreviations and sigla Introduction: Vivian Nutton and the rise of ancient medicine, Rebecca Flemming PART I: Prices and Exchange 1. The cost of health: rich and poor in imperial Rome, Veronique Boudon-Millot 2. Healing correspondence: letters and remedy exchange in the Graeco-Roman world, Laurence M. V. Totelin 3. Dioscorides on beavers, John Scarborough 4. The cost of a baby: how much did it cost to hire a wet-nurse in Roman Egypt?, Antonio Ricciardetto and Danielle Gourevitch PART II: Pluralism and Diversity 5. A return to cases and the pluralism of ancient medical traditions, G.E.R. Lloyd 6. Malaria, childbirth and the cult of Artemis, Elizabeth Craik 7. Medicine, markets and movement in the Bronze Age Mediterranean: a Mycenaean healing deity at Hattua-Bogazkoy, Robert Arnott 8. Antistius Medicus and the ides of March, Ann Ellis Hanson 9. Notes on three Asclepiadean doctors, David Leith 10. Hippocratic whispers: telling the story of the life of Hippocrates on the internet, Helen King Bibliography Bibliography of Vivian Nutton's works Index