1. Introduction

2. In the grip of gods (Homer, Hesiodos)

3. Inquiry into nature (Presocratics, Hippocratics, Herodotus)

4. Ontology (Presocratics, Hippocratics, Plato)

5. Methodology (Presocratics, Hippocratics, Plato)

6. Dietetics (the Hippocratic Nat. Hom., Vict., VM, Morb. Sacr.)

7. Medicine and philosophy (Hippocratics, Plato, Aristotle)

8. Plato’s (un)natural philosophy (Timaeus)

9. Aristotle’s response to Plato’s paradoxes (Meno, Phaedo, Timaeus)

10. Introduction into zoology (Aristotle, PA 1)

11. Aristotle’s science of man (biology – politics – ethics)

12. Diocles, Theophrastus, Galen

13. From Aristotle to W. Harvey and Ch. Darwin

14. Concluding discussion