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grbs-16290	Tolsa, Cristian	On the Origins of the Hippocratic Oath	2019	25	.pdf	application/pdf	9833	318	51	L. Edelstein’s hypothesis that the Hippocratic Oath was originally written by a Pythago- rean group1 has been largely dismissed for lack of evidence, and a series of scholars have instead explored the affinities between the Oath and mainstream ethical concepts in classical Greek society.2 If these studies tend to emphasize the ‘normality’ of the Oath in the fifth- and fourth-century context, the oddities of the text have been tackled by assuming that it was written (by Hip- pocrates) to ensure a proper use of medical knowledge outside the Asclepiad clan. In this regard, Cato might have been an exception: even an encyclopedic author like Pliny seems to ignore the Oath when dealing with topics obviously connected with the Oath, in his invective against Greek physicians that follows the quotation from Cato.	cache/grbs-16290.pdf	txt/grbs-16290.txt