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Pieces of Greek physiognomy (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore


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Greece
omens
physiognomy
Period
Greek Classical Age 		Channel
Greek philosophers and scholars

Text
Hippocratic Corpus, Epidemics 2:


Those with ruddy complexion, sharp nose, small eyes, are bad (sickly). Those with ruddy complexion, flat nose, large eyes, are good. … If the head is large and the eyes small, they are stammerer, they are quick to anger. People who are long-lived have more teeth. Stammerers and rapid talkers are severely melancholic. People who do not blink are quick to anger. Those with large head, large dark eyes, thick, blunt nose, are good.

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Hippocratic Corpus, Epidemics 2

Bibliography

Geller 2001-2002, 70Geller, Mark J. “West Meets East. Early Greek and Babylonian Diagnosis.” Archiv für Orientforschung 48/49 (2001-2002) 50-75.

Amar Annus


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