id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
grbs-16265	Das, Allison E.	Health, Harm, and the Civic Body: Medical Language in the Speeches of Demosthenes	2019	28	.pdf	application/pdf	10231	446	61	Tragedy was the first to pervasively use Hippocratic medical language, perhaps because of a shared concern with human suffering.5 What the Hippocratic medical writers offered the tragedians was a rich, new vocabulary of suffering that encouraged the audience to relive their own experiences with illness and disease.6 2 H. Yunis, “Politics as Literature: Demosthenes and the Burden of the Athenian Past,” Arion 8 (2000) 104. Contextualizing Demosthenes’ medical language Before turning to his deliberative speeches, it is essential to briefly consider how Demosthenes might have come into contact with Hippocratic theories.	cache/grbs-16265.pdf	txt/grbs-16265.txt