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The Sons of Asclepius
Author: Aelius Aristides, healing miracles associated with the gods, scientific perspective
History of Animals
Author: Aristotle, animals based on observations of their anatomy and behavior
The art of medicine
Author: Galen, four humors, role of maintaining that balance
On exercise with a small ball
Author: Galen, physical exercise benefits using a small ball
On Ancient Medicine
Author: Hippocrates, argues against the idea that medicine is a new discovery
The nature of man
Author: Hippocrates, four humors and role in health and disease, humoral theory
On the sacred disease
Author: hippocrates, argues that epilepsy has natural causes not divine origins
On regimen of health
Author: hippocrates, diet and lifestyle in maintaining health, advice on diet and exercise
Airs, Waters, Places
Author: hippocrates, environmental factors affect health
Iliad
Author: Homer, trojan war, battlefield injuries, healing and suffering
Metamorphoses
Author: Ovid, transformations related to health, aging, and the bodies natural changes
Pythian
Author: Pindar, praises hieron but touches on human condition
Ajax
Author: Sophocles, during trojan war, mental illness, ajax warrior suffers and commits suicide
The women of trachis
Author: Sophocles, Heracles poisoned by tunic from wife, pain suffering death by poison
Philoctetes
Author sophocles, suffers from uncurable wound after being abandoned on island, physical suffering, isolation
History of Peloponnesian War
Author: Thucydides, famous passage on plague of athens
