Apollonios of Kition
Apollonios von Kition was a Greek doctor from the city of Kition in Cyprus . He worked as a surgeon and medical writer in the 1st century BC. Chr.
Apollonios belonged to the school of empiricists . He studied with and with Zopyros in Alexandria and later lived as a doctor in his hometown. He is the author of a commentary on Hippocrates' Peri arthrōn (About joints) in three books, the first of which was dedicated to King Ptolemy of Cyprus († 58 BC). It was provided with illustrations to illustrate the restraint methods discussed by Hippocrates. In addition, a polemical work against Baccheius of Tanagra, a refutation of the criticism of Herakleides of Taranto of Baccheius of Tanagra, a Hippocrates commentary and two books on therapeutics are attested.
Text output
- Hermann Schöne (ed.): Apollonios von Kition: Illustrated commentary on the Hippocratic writing Peri arthrōn . Teubner, Leipzig 1896
- Jutta Kollesch , Fridolf Kudlien (ed.): Apollonii Citiensis In Hippocratis De articulis commentarius - Apollonios von Kition: Commentary on Hippocrates about the straightening of the joints (= Corpus medicorum Graecorum , 11,1,1). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1965 (text and translation)
- Jerker Blomqvist: The Hippocratic text of Apollonios of Kition. Gleerup, Lund 1974 (= Scripta minora Regiae Societatis Humaniorum Litterarum Lundensis. Volume 1), ISBN 9140033171 .
literature
Overview representations
- Jochen Althoff : Apollonios from Kition. In: Bernhard Zimmermann , Antonios Rengakos (Hrsg.): Handbook of the Greek literature of antiquity. Volume 2: The Literature of the Classical and Hellenistic Period. CH Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-61818-5 , p. 580 f.
- Françoise Caujolle-Zaslawsky: Apollonios de Cition . In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques , Vol. 1, CNRS, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-222-04042-6 , pp. 286-288.
- Gundolf Keil : Apollonios from Kition. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Encyclopedia of medical history. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 77.
Investigations
- Jutta Kollesch, Fridolf Kudlien: Comments on the Peri arthrōn commentary by Apollonius von Kition . In: Hermes , Vol. 89, 1961, pp. 322-332
Web links
- Literature by and about Apollonios von Kition in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Apollonios of Kition |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Apollonios |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century BC BC or 1st century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century BC Chr. |