Medicine and Sophistry in Hippolytus' Refutatio

Secord, Jared

Medicine and Sophistry in Hippolytus' Refutatio

dc.contributor.author	Secord, Jared
dc.date.accessioned	2019-10-30T14:15:46Z
dc.date.available	2019-10-30T14:15:46Z
dc.date.issued	2013-01
dc.description.abstract	The Refutatio attributed to Hippolytus contains numerous signs that Christians of the second and early third centuries were aware of the public displays performed by sophists and doctors. Hippolytus himself demonstrates his familiarity with the tropes of sophistic performance by depicting heretics, particularly his nemesis Callistus, as if they were just as inconsistent and devious as extemporizing sophists. Hippolytus also provides indications that some groups of heretics, particularly the Peratae, had active and technical interests in the mechanics of human anatomy and physiology, and that these groups are likely to have witnessed the public demonstrations and dissections commonly performed by doctors in the second century.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Secord, J. (2013). Medicine and Sophistry in Hippolytus' Refutatio. Studia Patristica, 65, 217–224.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/37224
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/111186
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher	Peeters Publishers	en_US
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dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en_US
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dc.title	Medicine and Sophistry in Hippolytus' Refutatio	en_US
dc.type	journal article	en_US
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