Where does this companion belong on the “medical marketplace” (V. Nutton) of introductions to ancient medicine? Other more or less recent standard introductions include Jacques Jouanna’s Hippocrate (1992), Vivian Nutton’s Ancient Medicine (2004), Elizabeth Craik’s The ‘Hippocratic’ Corpus (2015), and Hellmut Flashar’s Hippokrates (2016). In distinction from these introductions, Pormann’s volume aims to integrate the figure of Hippocrates into a philosophical framework, as some of the chapter headings indicate (see below). Another distinguishing characteristic is its interest in the reception of the figure of Hippocrates through the ages. The writers who continued the ‘Hippocratic’ tradition in some way are discussed not just in their roles as physicians and medical authors, but also as textual critics and exegetes. The Arabo-Islamic tradition is included in this line of inquiry. Finally, the volume unites an international team of 16 contributors, (8 of them women, I might add), which has resulted in a linguistically diverse and thematically balanced selection of secondary literature.