Research Catalog

Title

Filistione di Locri : un medico del IV secolo a.C. tra Grecia, Magna Grecia e Sicilia / Giuseppe Squillace.

Author

Squillace, Giuseppe

Publication

Hildesheim : Georg Olms Verlag, 2017.

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Details

Description

266 pages : maps; 21 cm.

Summary

The ancient sources preserved little information on Philistion, who lived between the end of the V century and the first half of the IV century BC. Born in Locroi Epizephyrioi in Magna Graecia, Philistion was the personal physician of the tyrant Dionisius II and, perhaps, Dionysius I at Syracuse, where he got to know the most eminent Greek intellectuals, such as Plato. His familiarity with Plato confined the physician in the shadow of the great Athenian philosopher, whose medical doctrines outlined in the Timaeus likely derived from Philistion?s work. By considering all the remaining testimonies, this monograph inserts Philistion in a precise historical context and gives back his true significance. The outcome is an autonomous and important figure emerging in the cultural panorama of the time and staying alongside Hippocrates and the best physicians of the Antiquity.

Series Statement

Spudasmata, 0548-9705 ; Band 170

Uniform Title

Spudasmata ; Bd. 170.

Subject

• Philistion, of Locri, active 4th century B.C
• Medicine, Greek and Roman
• Physicians
• History of Medicine
• Roman World
• Greek World
• Greece
• Sicily

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Biography.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-245) and indexes.

Language (note)

• Text in Italian; some Ancient Greek with parallel Italian translation.

Contents

Prima parte: La parabola biografica e professionale. Il Philistion di Max Wellmann e la storia degli studi ; Da Locri a Siracusa: due percorsi possibili ; Tra Sicilia e Grecia: le dottrine di Filistione ; Tra Grecia, Magna Grecia e Sicilia: Filistione e la circolazione di tradizioni mediche occidentali nella scuola di Platone e Aristotele -- Seconda parte: Testi, traduzione e commento storico. Testimonia -- Appendici. Un medico di Sicilia nella scuola di Platone ; Platone e Filistione: elementi di medicina nelle pagine del Timeo ; Lo scritto Sul cuore.

Call Number

ReCAP 19-4893

ISBN

• 9783487155791
• 3487155796

LCCN

2017439980

OCLC

993866543

Author

Squillace, Giuseppe, author.

Title

Filistione di Locri : un medico del IV secolo a.C. tra Grecia, Magna Grecia e Sicilia / Giuseppe Squillace.

Publisher

Hildesheim : Georg Olms Verlag, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Spudasmata, 0548-9705 ; Band 170

Spudasmata ; Bd. 170.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-245) and indexes.

Language

Text in Italian; some Ancient Greek with parallel Italian translation.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 19-4893