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Olympian Healers

Vase painting featuring the bearded centaur; Achilles and Chiron are making eye contact; large, stylized flowers surround the pair.

Chiron

Vase painting featuring a man kneeling and treating the left arm of a seated man.

Achilles

Engraving of statue of a bearded Asclepius standing in a toga with his staff to his right with a single snake wrapped around it, to his left is his attendant.

Asclepius

Cross-section of restored temple of Asclepius at Epidaurus, showing a statue of the gad seated on a throne with snakes on and behind the throne.

Temple of Asclepius

Two snakes entwined around a winged staff

Asclepius, Hermes, and the Caduceus

Illustrated title page featuring snakes, including the single-snake staff of Asclepius and the double snake of the caduceus with other ancient medical and mythological images involving snakes.

The Snake and Its Medical Associations

Photograph of a frieze of the Parthenon showing Apollo, seated, wearing a toga and facing left.

Apollo

Eileithyia stands behind Zeus, who is seated, and Hera stands in front of him, both with outstretched hands to catch Athena.

Eileithyia and Hera Assisting Zeus in the Birth of Athena

Engraving of a Greek statue of Hygieia standing in robes and holding a snake that is entwined around her left arm

Hygieia

Hippocrates

Engraving showing a balding man with a large beard looking to the left-hand side of the screen

Hippocrates

The title in Greek capital letters and Latin with a large printer’s device showing a dolphin wrapped around a large anchor

Omnia opera Hippocratis

A page of print in two languages

The Hippocratic Oath

Aristotle

Aristotle

Page of text with manuscript initial letter 'E' in red ink

De animalibus (On the Animals)

Page of Greek text with woodcut headpiece and initial

Aristotle, Selections, 1561

The frontispiece is a woodcut image showing a scholar in a library at a desk writing with a quill pen with a hirsute nude woman standing to his left and a black child standing to her left with a window behind them showing the sun shining in.

Pseudo-Aristotle

Galen

Portrait of a man, seated, facing to the right holding plants

Galen

Page of Greek text in manuscript

De pulsibus (On the Pulse)

After Galen

Portrait of a man facing to the right in a cap and coat

Dioscorides

Page from a facsimile of a manuscript by Dioscorides known as <i>Codex Vindobonensis</i> showing an onion in the center of the page surrounded by text in Greek with some words in Arabic

Codex Vindobonensis

A text page in Greek

“Theriaca” in De Materia Medica

At the top of the page is a woodcut illustration of seven black rats huddled together; at the bottom is a woodcut illustration of a farm scene with a soman milking a cow on the left and a man churning butter on the right with two dogs and other livestock and a house in the background.

Acerca de la materia medicinal…

Illustration showing a seated Greek male figure in a toga with bare chest balancing a stick on an orb on a column with Greek text surrounding it.

Pythagoras

Title page in Greek and Latin illustrated with a large anchor with a dolphin wrapped around it.

Oneirocritica

Book opened showing Latin text with manuscript initial letter 'I' in red ink

De somniurum interpretatione…

Book open with Arabic script on orange paper.

Commentary on… “On the nature of man”

Detail from a title page of a wood block print of a printer's device, a dolphin wrapped around an anchor.

Aldus Manutius Printer's Device

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