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CLASSIC 48

Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to Greek and Roman medicine in its intellectual and cultural context. Examination of construction of concepts such as health, disease, physician, man, woman, cause, and difference. Readings from Greek literature and healing in cult of Asclepius. Readings of texts from Hippocratic collection, thought to be close to practice and theory of 5th-century BCE Greek physician, relating them to medical practice, competition for students and patients, intellectual display, developing scientific methods, ethnography, and Greek philosophy. Discussion of plagues as attempts to view such outbreaks as social phenomena. Examination of how Hippocratic understanding of how--or whether--we can know about what happens inside body was developed and challenged in 3rd-century BCE Alexandria. Study of Prince of Physicians, Galen, champion of Hippocratic medicine, influential into 18th century. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.85
n = 382 · 2 terms · ± 0.028
A range
92%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
2%
100% of those passed
D / F / W
0.8%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Not offered in Fall 2026.

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 19323W
  • 19625S
Enrolment by term: 23W 193, 25S 196
Peak 196 Most recent 196 in 25S 2 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 117 · 30.1%
  • A 181 · 46.5%
  • A- 54 · 13.9%
  • B+ 12 · 3.1%
  • B 6 · 1.5%
  • B- 4 · 1.0%
  • C+ 3 · 0.8%
  • C 2 · 0.5%
  • D- 1 · 0.3%
  • F 2 · 0.5%
  • P 6 · 1.5%
  • I 1 · 0.3%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.

By instructor

Instructor Predicted Raw n Terms A range
BLANK, DAVID L 3.85 3.85 382 2 92%

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department — so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.

By term