Abstract
An extensive introductory study opens the volume containing new commented translations of the selected Hippocratic treatises. The scope of the study embraces the characteristics of the Corpus Hippocraticum as a whole; the practice of medical profession during the time of “historical” Hippocrates; the relationship between medicine and philosophy in Ancient Greece; as well as the process of inventing the Hippocratic legend, its ties to the cult of Asclepius (and to temple medicine), and the textual tradition of the Corpus Hippocraticum including the first renaissance editions and the various waves of Hippocratic revival in the centuries to come.