Stephanos (medic)

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Stephanos (also called Stephanos of Athens and Stephanos of Alexandria ) was a Byzantine doctor and commentator on medical works from Athens who worked in Alexandria around 600 .

Stephanos was a student of an Asklepios teaching in Alexandria, who should not be confused with the Neo-Platonist Asklepios von Tralleis . Three of the writings ascribed to Stephanos have survived: Commentaries on the Aphorisms and the Prognostikón of Hippocrates and (using the pharmacological terminology of Pedanios Dioscurides ) on Galen's Methodos Medendi (Ad Glauconem) . The structure and method of all of the comments testify to a knowledge of both the training system for doctors in Alexandria and the philosophy of the time. Parallels between Stephanos ' aphorism commentary and that of Theophilos Protospatharios , who was also assumed to be Stephanos' teacher, from 9/10. Century are probably based on the use of the same template.

In the handwritten tradition of his works, Stephanos is consistently referred to as a philosopher. Thus, equating it with several philosophers of the same name is considered possible, but is very problematic. The hypothesis that he is identical with the Neo-Platonist Stephanos of Alexandria is rather rejected today. Other equations considered include that of an Athenian who taught philosophy in Constantinople around 606 .

literature

  • Véronique Boudon-Millot : Stéphanos d'Athènes. In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Volume 6, CNRS Éditions, Paris 2016, ISBN 978-2-271-08989-2 , pp. 579-588
  • Vivian Nutton : Stephanos [9]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 11, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01481-9 , Sp. 960 (advocates equating it with the philosopher Stephanos of Alexandria).
  • Elżbieta Szabat: Stephanos of Athens / Alexandria. In: Paweł Janiszewski, Krystyna Stebnicka, Elżbieta Szabat: Prosopography of Greek Rhetors and Sophists of the Roman Empire. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-871340-1 , pp. 413-415 (advocates equating it with the philosopher Stephen of Alexandria)
  • Wolfgang Wegner: Stephan of Athens (from Alexandria). In: Werner E. Gerabek et al. (Ed.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1360.
  • Wanda Wolska-Conus: Stéphanos d'Athènes et Stéphanos d'Alexandrie. Essai d'identification et de biography . In: Revue des Études byzantines 47, 1989, pp. 5-89

Remarks

  1. ↑ Leendert Gerrit Westerink (ed.): Stephanus of Athens: Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms , 3 volumes, Berlin 1985–1995 (with English translation).
  2. ^ John M. Duffy (ed.): Stephanus the Philosopher: A Commentary on the Prognosticon of Hippocrates , Berlin 1983 (with English translation).
  3. ↑ Keith Dickson (Ed.): Stephanus the Philosopher and Physician: Commentary on Galen's Therapeutics to Glaucon , Leiden 1998 (with English translation).
  4. ↑ Stefan Esders : Herakleios, Dagobert and the 'circumcised peoples'. In: Andreas Goltz et al. (Hrsg.): Beyond the borders. Contributions to late antique and early medieval historiography , Berlin 2009, p. 262.
personal data
SURNAME Stephanos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek doctor and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH before 600
DATE OF DEATH 6th century or 7th century