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Joaquín Fortanet Fernández
Universidad de Zaragoza
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5372-7081
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Vol 41 No 2 (2022), Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/ag.41.2.7598
Submitted: 23-03-2021 Accepted: 06-09-2021 Published: 28-04-2022
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This text raises the change in the notion of disease that occurred in the 5th century BC. through the comparison between nósos, insanity and plague in the tragedies of Sophocles and the new diagnostic process that will be launched with the establishment of the Hippocratic corpus. Analyzing the causes, the cure and the being of the disease in the Philoctetes, Ajax and Oedipus Rex, we will be able to observe the distances with respect to the technical and rational conception of the Hippocratic diágnosis and thus delimit the processes of technical development, democratization of knowledge, loss of divine authority that will make possible a medicine liberated, as knowledge, from its ancestral religious roots.