... .org/greekciv/science/medicine2/page1.htm). The earliest source of Greek medical knowledge and descriptions of Ancient Greek medical practices is in Homer. The two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey gave descriptions of healing wounds of the men injured in battle. The two poems focused more on the comfort of the wounded man rather than how to treat the wound itself. Surgery in the Greek world was defined "as ... any treatment that involved using the hands versus medicines" and it included the dressing of wounds and the manipulation of dislocated limbs ... ...

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... Jokinen 1996). It is in the early Greek literature that we find the earliest heroic epic. One of the examples is Iliad, which is extremely important from the European literary standpoint because it constitutes the beginning stages of the development of European literature (Hanczakowski 2001:23). The Iliad, followed by Odyssey are the examples of epic poetry in the early Greek literature, they "emphasized the ideals of honor and bravery and ... to be developed while on "the journey-initiation quest". The heroic tradition originated in the antique mythologies where the superhuman, almost ...

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... also based their number system on the number 60, which led to the use of hours and minutes in the way we use them today. V. A. 1. The epic poems of Homer tell us most of what we know about the era of 1200-800 bc. The Iliad tells how the Greeks besieged and destroyed Troy. The Odyssey tells what happened after the Trojan War to the king of Ithaca, a leader of Greece ... . It is likely that the world the two poems describe ... was similar to actual period, a sort of dark period. Through the poems we see a society of warriors and petty ... ...

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