Title: Filistione di Locri : un medico del IV secolo a.C. tra Grecia, Magna Grecia e Sicilia /
Authors: Squillace, Giuseppe.
Year: 2017
Subjects: Philistion,; Medicine, Greek and Roman
Abstract: 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.
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.