
Peter Pormann
Professor of Classics & Graeco-Arabic Studies at the University of Manchester
3 episodes
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The Hippocratic Oath
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Hippocratic Oath, the most celebrated text in Western medicine.
15 September 2011
Also featuring: Vivian Nutton, Helen King
The Translation Movement
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the movement of classical Greek ideas out of the Byzantine Empire and into the Islamic world from the 9th century onwards.
2 October 2008
Also featuring: Peter Adamson, Amira Bennison