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In this chapter, I shall focus on the Galenic corpus, whose dissemination in the Byzantine world was widespread and influential; in particular, I have chosen to ~examine the various revivals of Galen’s Therapeutics to Glaucon, which was copied ~widely. A number of authors produced commentaries based on this treatise and ~some were invariably influenced by it in composing their own works throughout the ~Byzantine era (AD 330–1453).4 My study is not exhaustive, but rather I shall select ~specific examples of interest from the various forms of evidence. First, I shall provide ~some basic introductory details on Galen’s Therapeutics to Glaucon, followed ~by a section on its circulation and textual transmission in Byzantium. Then, I shall ~go on to discuss its revival by Byzantine medical authors into two further sections; ~the first focuses on commentaries and the second deals with medical handbooks.