THE POWER OF RHETORIC IN THE ANCIENT WORLD: The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature. ( Trends in Classics Supplementary Volume 108.) Pp. xii + 449. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. Cased, £118, €129.95, US$149.99. ISBN: 978-3-11-060979-0

In September 2016 then presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told a group of potential donors that ‘… you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. While the term ‘basket of deplorables’ was immediately cast by the media as a political gaffe of the highest order, the language that Clinton used was in many ways appropriate to the context in which she was speaking: to spur her audience to donate to her campaign. Romani Mistretta, on the other hand, looks at how a shared method and history in two disparate technical fields, medicine and artillery engineering, not only created a community of knowledge but offered a clear-cut way for readers of Hippocrates and Philo to join them. To build on Romani Mistretta's analysis of the De vetere medicina, what do we make of the fact that Hippocrates is still considered by modern health professionals as the founder of medicine?