Ancient Greek Medicine Exam 1 with correct answers 100% 2026

Ancient Greek Medicine Exam 1 with correct answers 100% 2026 patterns of settlement and disease - Correct Answer - People lived in small "villages" of around 2,000 people and did not travel very far from their settlements in the Mediterranean - People who did travel far from their homes were few and far between and did not go that far from home either - Diseases were spread only with armies or traders Each settlement had different diseases because they each had different patterns of settlements - small agrarian communities where everyone knows everyone plagues and communicable diseases - Correct Answer - Writers did record diseases spreading over much bigger areas such as the Antonine plague of 166-72 - Modern perspective of plagues - infectious spreading of bacteria and viruses that are deadly involving quarantine Ancient perspective of plagues - theirs is environmental malnutrition and disease - Correct Answer - They were self sufficient for food, but when famine was imminent they could bulk move food such as grain with the help of the rich, bad harvests caused death and disaster - Certain foods could become unavailable at certain times of the year causing malnutrition - Eye diseases were prominent because of their nutrition The malnutrition was prominent due to seasonality - they ate a limited diet and were always just hanging on because they were limited in what they could eat diseases of old age - Correct Answer - Cancers, breast cancer - Modern perspective - people are getting older and lots of different diseases are associated with older age - Ancient perspective - everyone is mostly young adults, they talk about old age but there is no text about just old age diseases epidemics, pandemics, and communicable diseases - Correct Answer - Populations were too scattered to allow for frequent and widespread outbreaks of disease because the disease would either not survive the journey or it would be exposed to people with immunity - Outbreaks of disease were mostly local - Outbreaks occurred in local areas due to armies coming in and famines Greek medical writers firmly believed that epidemic disease was a result of bad air occupational diseases and health hazards - Correct Answer - connection between occupation and health, ex: fishermen paralyzed by an eel - Slave laborers worked in unhealthy conditions, rarely saw a doctor (only slave doctors) usually only when they were to be sold - No perspective of occupational diseases because they don't work, just anecdotal things and snippets of slavery (diseases associated with it) - We have lots of information on occupational diseases - Modern perspective of health hazards - we expect to be cured and we expect doctors to be superhuman Ancient perspective of health hazards - don't expect to be cured, doctors could also kill you so you might be better to not go to the doctor pathocoenosis - Correct Answer "refers to a pathological state arising from the interactions of diseases within a population and to the temporal and spatial dynamics of all of the disease" - M. Grmek Mortality and Morbidity - Correct Answer life expectancy was 20 to 30, many women died during childbirth causing an imbalance in the sexes, lots of children died before they turned 1 Paleopathology/Bio-archeology - Correct Answer diseased conditions of ancient human and animal remains, hard to see diseases in bone remains because they don't really leave a trace, may not have that many remains common diseases in antiquity - Correct Answer arthritis, coughs, colds, pneumonia, pleurisy, diarrhea, jaundice, ulcers Puretoi, febres, and malaria - Correct Answer pattern of fevers based on this disease, spread by mosquitoes, enlargement of spleen and liver, showed the Greeks that disease was subject to the laws of the universe and that lepra, leprosey, and Hansen's disease - Correct Answer - affecting the skin and peripheral nervous system, prominent in Christian literature - When ancient Greek authors use the term LEPRA we CANNOT definitely say they were talking about leprosy Greek Archaic Period 776-479 BC (Polis, Colonization, Greek Alphabet) - Correct Answer - Rise of the polis (city-states) - see themselves as "I'm a Spartan" it is their country and like a nationality - Colonization - Greeks spreading out into Asia Minor, Italy, and Egypt They have an alphabet and literature - Homer and Hesiod that is conveying information disease and medicine: Homer (Iliad and Odyssey), Hesiod (works and days), Herodotus (histories) - Correct Answer - Homer intricately describes medical conditions and such with great vocab and descriptions in these writings - Hesiod said the Egyptians had doctors but the Babylonians didn't, his accounts of Egypt can potentially be evidence of Egyptian influence on Greek medicine Machaon and Podalirius - Correct Answer - both have medical knowledge given to them by their father Asclepius, but they are described as warriors first in the Iliad , Machaon is an iastros -Machaon (war wound - surgery) and Podalirius (medicine with drugs) - they were iastros and healed people - they were artisans - they are warrior-doctors Ninyas the Egyptian (Anonymus Londinensis) - Correct Answer - cited for the belief of 2 types of affection congenital which is innate and acquired which is a result of residues of nutriment. He has opinions that were similar to the Greeks and is included with those that believed that diseases come from residues of nutriment instead of changes in the body's elements. Empedocles - Correct Answer - PRE SOCRATIC PHILOSOPHER - involved in medicine at a practical and theoretical level, his poetry shows a deep interest in medical matters. - His theories covered all of human physiology from when you are born to when you die. - He believed in the 4 elements (humors :earth, air, fire, and water linked with the qualities hot, cold, wet, and dry) and that their different relationships explained the differences between substances - Wrote about drugs to heal people and is called an iatros who practice medicine. - Believed in the four elements which is what the universe is made of. Blood is made of all 4 elements flesh. - Digestion and heat in the stomach, food is cooked in the stomach. Alcmaeon of Croton - Correct Answer - PRE SOCRATIC PHILOSOPHER - health depends on the harmonious balanced mixture of all the elements in opposites. - He also drew parallels between the human body and the political body. He also talked a lot of senses being connected to the brain by channels. - Theoretical - health and disease, monarchia when there is too much of something it is bad. - Isonomia. - Crasis/eucrasis - mixture/good mixture, the way it is mixed causes the disease not the amount. - Poroi and brain for sensation.