Prosthetics in Antiquity
The Ancients
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Ancient Greek Literature
The main source of material we have is the ancient literature. There are no specific works dedicated to prostheses because they were something that, well, we can hazard a guess as to why nobody is writing specifically about proteses. So you literally find them everywhere in history, in comedy, in drama. Is it it's alwas like a treasure hunt, really looking through ancient literature, trying to find these references.
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