Female doctors, or medicae, would also have been mainly of Greek origin, and either working with male doctors, or as midwives specializing in childbirth and women’s diseases and disorders. When it came to the army however, most doctors would have been male. Ancient surgical instruments, inclu...
While Xerxes watched the battle rage from the shore, Artemisia sailed her ships against the Greeks. She became trapped between the Greek and Persian armadas, but was able to escape due to a case of mistaken identity on the part of the Greeks. She took full advantage of this mistake and, ...
Furthermore, there are times when he describes and evaluates Greek peoples that many Athenians were interested in marginalizing, such as the “semi-barbarous” Aitolians (link). But full-on ethnographic digressions are generally not his way, with the exception of ou...
Among Galatians, the women are not only like the men in their great size but they are a match for them in courage as well. Their children are usually born with grayish hair, but as they grow older the colour of their hair changes to that of their parents. The mos...
From the days of the Achaemenids to the Sasanian period, Avestan as well as Greek medicine substantially penetrated into Iran. Under the Sasanian king of kings Khosrow I Anôširvân (r. 531-79), the famous Burzôy traveled to India to study medicine (De Blois, 1990). ...
“Do not let this matter dismay you. You are not suffering it on account of your negligence. The place, the lack of provisions, and the lack of contact with women here witness in your favour. Rather does this endure against you because of the ...
you may see a throng of women with curled hair, who might, if they had married, by this time, so far as age goes, have already produced three children, sweeping the pavements with their feet to the point of weariness and whirlin...
[Arimphaeans as parallel to Hyperboreans] Here we have reports of a people called the Arimphaeans, a people not unlike the Hyperboreans. They dwell in forests and live on berries. Long hair is considered to be disgraceful in the case of ...
The hairs of it are finer than those of man, and Indian women set great store by obtaining them, and in fact they braid them in and adorn themselves most beautifully, plaiting them in with their own hair. Each hair attains a length of two forearms, and there spring per...