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  1. Magical and Medical Approaches to the Wandering Womb in the Ancient Greek World.Christopher A. Faraone - 2011 - Classical Antiquity 30 (1):1-32.
    The idea that the womb moved freely about a woman's body causing spasmodic disease enjoyed great popularity among the ancient Greeks, beginning in the classical period with Plato and the Hippocratic writers and continuing on into the Roman and Byzantine periods. Armed with sophisticated analyses of the medical tradition and new texts pertaining to the magical, this essay describes how both approaches to the wandering womb develop side by side in mutual influence from the late classical period onwards. Of special (...)
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