A Byzantine Encyclopaedia of Horse Medicine

• The first study in English of an important veterinary text from late antiquity
• Full of fascinating details about the way horses were cared for - including massages with olive oil, and sauna sessions
• Provides a case-study for the way scientific texts were transmitted during the Byzantine period

Readership: Byzantinists, classicists, scholars and students of the history of science, of the history of veterinary medicine (especially for horses), historians of late antiquity, philologists of Greek and Latin.

Anne McCabe, Research Associate, Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, Oxford

"There are fascinating texts, waiting to be exploited by students of late antique language and literature and historians of religion and thought" - Philip van der Eijk, The Journal of Classics Teaching

"A Byzantine Encyclopaedia of Horse Medicine establishes a new standard work that will be consulted by those interested in the Hippiatric corpus as well as those undertaking broader research in the communication of scientific knowledge and its transmission through the centuries." - Michael Decker, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

"...most welcome and carefully written..." - John Scarborough, Times Literary Supplement

Introduction
Manuscripts of the Hippiatrica
Editions and translations
Studies on the text
The form of the Hippiatrica
The sources of the Hippiatrica
The compilation and evolution of the text
Conclusions