The Body and the Polis: Alcmaeon on Health and DiseaseFootnote

¹This paper was presented at seminars in Humboldt – Universität zu Berlin and University College London. I am grateful to all participants for their suggestions, as well as Chloe Balla, Geoffrey Lloyd, Anna Marmodoro, Malcolm Schofield, David Sedley, James Warren, and the anonymous referees of the BJHP who commented on the earlier versions of this paper. Its completion was possible, thanks to the generous support of the research programme ‘Medicine of the Mind – Philosophy of the Body: Discourses of Health and Well-Being in the Ancient World’ which is funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and is directed by Philip van der Eijk.

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