Herakleides of Taranto

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Herakleides of Taranto was an important physician in Alexandria . He lived around 75 BC. BC and belonged to the direction of the empiricists .

Herakleides was a pupil of the Herophilean Mantias and the physician and resuscitator of Pyrrhonism Ptolemaios of Cyrene and teacher of Ainesidemos . His pharmacological works ( Pros Antiochida , Pros Astydamanta , Nikolaos , Stratiōtēs , the first military pharmacopoeia) conveyed the valuable pharmacological material of the older, especially the empirical, doctors. Celsus or its source draws from it. Likewise, his therapeutic works ( Ta entos and ektos therapeutika , Thēriaka ) are often available from Celsus. One of the sources that Herakleides used was the work medicine box (Greek Ναρυηνξ , "narynx") of Andreas von Karystos († 217 BC), the personal physician of Ptolemy IV , which mainly describes a description of medicinal plants. Herakleides' is remarkable . learned "medical" symposium that Athenaios used. It is of a dietary nature and is related to its diet icon. Through the mediation of Niger , much of his dietary writings made it into the Naturalis historia of the older Pliny and Dioscorides . His medical-grammatical works are also significant: his commentaries on Hippocrates used by Rufos and his lexicon (with many etymologies) directed against the Herophile Bakcheios , against which Apollonios von Kition wrote a counterpart.

literature

  • Véronique Boudon: Héraclide de Tarente. In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques . Volume 3, CNRS Éditions, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-271-05748-5 , pp. 560-562
  • Karl Deichgräber : The Greek Empirical School. Collection of the fragments and presentation of the teaching . Weidmann, Berlin 1965 (dissertation, reprint of the first publication from 1930 with additions)
  • Hans Georg von Manz: Herakleides of Tarent. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 570 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Georg von Manz: Herakleides von Tarent. 2005, p. 570.
  2. ^ Wolfgang Wegner: Andreas von Karystos. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 62.
personal data
SURNAME Herakleides of Taranto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heraclides Tarentinus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century BC BC or 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 1st century BC Chr.