THE WOUNDING OF ALEXANDER-THE-GREAT IN CYROPOLIS (329 BC) - THE FIRSTREPORTED CASE OF THE SYNDROME OF TRANSIENT CORTICAL BLINDNESS

Authors
LASCARATOS J
Citation
J. Lascaratos, THE WOUNDING OF ALEXANDER-THE-GREAT IN CYROPOLIS (329 BC) - THE FIRSTREPORTED CASE OF THE SYNDROME OF TRANSIENT CORTICAL BLINDNESS, Survey of ophthalmology, 42(3), 1997, pp. 283-287
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Ophthalmology
Journal title
Survey of ophthalmology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00396257
Volume
42
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
283 - 287
Database
ISI
SICI code
0039-6257(1997)42:3<283:TWOAIC>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
I believe that the transient blindness which presented Alexander the G reat after his being wounded on his head and/or his neck by a stone fr om a catapult during the siege of Cyropolis (329 BC) was in all probab ility a case of transient cortical blindness that was recognized as a special entity in the 1960s. I reached this conclusion after the compa rative study of the Emperor's clinical picture provided by ancient tex ts, especially those of Plutarch and Quintus Curtius Rufus, with that of a modern medical bibliography. (C) 1997 by Elsevier Science Inc. Al l rights reserved.