Talk:Hippocrates

Needs add'l category. How to add Classics Workgroup

Needs add'l category. How to add Classics Workgroup.--Anthony.Sebastian 19:25, 19 April 2008 (CDT)

Chris would have to rework the {{subpages}} and related pages to allow a 4th. You need the 3 you have already more than Classics? J. Noel Chiappa 21:07, 19 April 2008 (CDT)

No. I think to put back Classics, remove Healing Arts, though latter Workgroup should collaborate and monitor, as Hippocrates developed healing arts. I wonder how hard a template change to add more categories would be for a wizard like Chris. CZ will have a lot of articles based on multidisciplinary work, so more categories would seem needed.

When we get to discussing the contents of the Hippocratic documents, botany will come. --Anthony.Sebastian 17:35, 20 April 2008 (CDT)

Biographical revisions

Hey--

I changed a few things around in the presentation of Hippocrates' biography in the article. In particular, I changed the intro and moved some of the discussion from there down to a new section on Sources for the Life of Hippocrates. The main secondary source at present (at least as cited in the article) is the book by Jacques Jouanna. Jouanna is a revisionist, though, and much of the scholarship before and since has been very skeptical about the facts of Hippocrates' life. To my mind, writing the article to only reflect Jouanna's scholarship would not be neutral. I don't know the biographical tradition well enough to do this, but in this case, I also think it would really useful to go through and point out which biographical details come from which sources.

Let's get a companion article on Galen going!

Thanks, Brian P. Long 21:32, 2 May 2008 (CDT)