"La médicine et les médecins dans les papyrus grecs", E. Boswinkel, "Eos", 48, 1956, 1 : [recenzja]

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I n this b i b l i o g r a p h y t h e a u t h o r reviews t h e following books and articles, n o t available t o me so f a r : W . P e e k , Griechische Ver-sinschriften, c o n t a i n i n g " G r a b - E p i g r a m m e " a n d including n o t only inscriptions b u t also epigrams recorded on p a p y r i ; M. P . N i l s s o n , Die hellenistische Schule, who on p . 85 discusses t h e so-cial significance of t h e g y m n a s i u m in E g y p t , m e n t i o n i n g in this connection t h e P t o l e m a i c inscriptions referring t o g y m n a s i u m ;

У. B u r n s , Tiberius Julius Alexander (cf. JJP 9—10 [1956] 496).

M. P . N i l s s o n , Die hellenistische Schule (München, Beck 1955) X I I + 1 0 4 + 8 pis.

N o t seen. I k n o w it only f r o m a review b y C. B. W e l l e s , Class. Phil. L I I , No. (1957) p . 53—54.

L . С a s s o n , The Size of Ancient Merchant Ships (Studi in on. A. Calderini & R. Paribeni I [1956] 231—238).

This article is a n a t t e m p t to answer t h e f u n d a m e n t a l question a b o u t t h e a n c i e n t vessels, one t h a t has n e v e r been satisfactorily dealt w i t h : w h a t was t h e i r c a r r y i n g c a p a c i t y ? how m a n y t o n s of cargo could be loaded i n t o their h o l d s ? F i t t i n g l y enough, one im-p o r t a n t im-p h a s e of t h e i n q u i r y im-p a r t i c u l a r l y concerns E g y im-p t and t h e R o m a n E m p i r e .

E . B o s w i n k e l , La medicine et les médecins dans les papyrus grecs (Symbolae R. Taubenschlag dedicatae = Eos 48, 1 [1956] 181-190). T h e a u t h o r p o i n t s o u t t h a t in e x a m i n a t i o n s (cf. m y Law2 632)

t h e hyperetes played t h e chief rôle a n d t h e physicians served only as his advisers, t h a t t h e t e r m δημόσιος ιατρός appears in t h e epoch of E m p e r o r A n t o n i n u s P i u s a n d f i n a l l y t h a t t h e t a x ίατρικόν was paid in t h e P t o l e m a i c epoch only b y t h e cleruchs. Very interesting are his r e m a r k s a b o u t t h e social position of t h e physicians a n d t h e exercise of t h e i r profession.

A. R o w e — B. R . R e e s , A Contribution to the Archeology of the Western Desert: I V The Great Serapeum of Alexandria ( R e p r i n t f r o m t h e Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Vol. 39, No. 2,