Greek remained the unchallenged language of all the dominant philosophical schools. It was also the language in which all our best sources on ancient medicine and the subjective experience of disease under the empire were composed. The most vivid insights into the minds of all the inhabitants of the Roman Empire were produced by the great celebrities who wrote in Greek. Their thoughts have had an incalculable impact on cultural and intellectual life since the Renaissance and still influence us today. Hellenism was so powerful precisely because it “was a medium not necessarily antithetical to
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