Soranus' Gynecology

It is splendid news for all classicists, especially those interested in the history of women in antiquity that Owsei Temkin’s translation of Soranus’ Gynecology is back again in print… thanks are due to the Johns Hopkins Press for reissuing Dr. Temkin’s translation in paperback. Today’s students in Women in Antiquity classes will now have full access to this important evidence for women’s daily lives in the early Empire. Women’s Classical Caucus Newsletter Temkin draws upon his experiences as a physician to supplement Soranus’s vague descriptions of medicines. The translation avoids modern medical terminology, keeping close to the original Greek. Religious Studies Review

Owsei Temkin, M.D. (1902-2002), was William H. Welch Professor of the History of Medicine and director of the Institute of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University. His books include The Falling Sickness: A History of Epilepsy from the Greeks to the Beginnings of Modern Neurology, Soranus’ Gynecology (translation), and Hippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians.