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

Summary/Abstract: The article tries to interpret the different characteristics of Europe and Asia and their inhabitants in the Hippocratic treatise De aëre, aquis, locis. It attempts to introduce the dichotomous outlook of the author of the treatise as embedded in the preceding tradition of Greek thought (philosophical, historical, cartographical and geometrical as well), but decisively transformed by a specific way of argumentation, which is present in the treatises of the Corpus Hippocraticum. The study also reflects Herodotus’ critique of the continental division of earth and his own, mutually conflicting treatment of the topic in the geographical passages of Histories and in his narrative of the Greek-Persian Wars.

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