Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture Volume III
Subtitle: The Conflict of Cultural Ideals in the Age of Plato (Paideia, the Ideals of Greek Culture)
Contributors: Gilbert Highet (Translator)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: April 24, 1986
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780195040487
First sentence: PLATO speaks of doctors and medicine in such high terms that, even if the early medical literature of Greece were entirely lost, we should need no further evidence to infer that, during the late fifth and the fourth centuries before Christ, the social and intellectual prestige of the Greek medical profession was very high indeed.