Most of the 114 injury descriptions in the Iliad and the Odyssey are illustrated on n merous ancient and Hellenistic Greek vases. The present work, by collecting and analyzing many such injury scenes on vases as possible, investigates whether they correspond to advanc knowledge as far as anatomy of vital organs is concerned.
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Geroulanos, S., Tasouli, A., Lymberopoulou, E., Papadopoulos, K. (2008). Homeric Injury Scenes on Ancient Greek Pottery Reveal Medical Knowledge. In: Paipetis, S.A. (eds) Science and Technology in Homeric Epics. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8784-4_19
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