Volumes et viscères. Sens et emplois de ὄγκος dans les textes médicaux et philosophiques grecs, son rapport à ἔγκατα (Homère) et la question de la Loi Eichner

Abstrakt

The present work is devoted to the Ancient Greek lexeme ὄγκος, which denotes a swelling, a distension, a tumor (cf. oncology), a round mass, especially in the vocabulary of anatomy and physiology. More generally, ὄγκος means ‘bulk, size, mass of a body’. Textual evidence confirms that ὄγκος originally refers to volume, not to weight. These observations pave the way for a diachronic analysis of the word.

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