title: The image of Empedocles in the Hippocratic treatises and the interpretation of some biographical evidences
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metadata.value: Afonasina, Anna S.
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metadata.value: 2022-11-10T11:30:42Z
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metadata.value: 2022-11-10T11:30:42Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-09
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metadata.value: Afonasina A. S. The image of Empedocles in the Hippocratic treatises and the interpretation of some biographical evidences. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2022, vol. 38, issue 3, pp. 293–306. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2022.302 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2022.302
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38497
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metadata.value: Empedocles is spoken of as a physician by various ancient authors. However, none of the
  medical works attributed to him has survived. These may have been the treatise of Empedocles
  mentioned by Pliny the Elder on the deliverance of Athens from the plague and the medical
  treatise in six hundred verses. Nevertheless, we have at our disposal a number of fragments
  of his poem, in which the structure of various parts of the body is described, an attempt is
  made to explain the functioning of the processes of perception, some physiological processes
  and the structure of living organisms are described. Empedocles is also mentioned in some
  treatises of the Hippocratic corpus, but rather as a fake doctor in comparison with the real, i. e.
  Hippocratic doctors. This study aims to resolve the conflict that exists between the fragments
  of Empedocles’ poem, in which he speaks in the first person and promises to teach various
  “magical” techniques, the testimonies of Heraclides and Timaeus based on these statements,
  and the reaction to Empedocles by representatives of the Hippocratic school. For this we will
  have to turn both to doxographic evidence and to some treatises of the Hippocratic corpus —
  “Ancient Medicine”, “The Sacred Disease” and “Decorum”. The article examines what medicine
  was in antiquity, what was the reason for the institutionalization of the medical profession,
  and whether a clear disciplinary boundary could be drawn between medicine and natural
  philosophy at the time. These questions are included in the general discussion of the relation
  between religious and scientific views in the philosophy of Empedocles, as well as in the
  mentioned treatises of the Hippocratic corpus. In addition, the article attempts to interpret the
  story of the miraculous resurrection of the breathless by referring to contemporary research
  in the field of resuscitation.
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metadata.value: The research was funded by the Russian Science Foundation grant no. 22-28-00163 “Empedocles the
  Physicist: A study of natural science fragments with translation and commentary”.
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 38; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Empedocles
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metadata.value: ancient medicine
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Hippocratic treatises
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: image of the doctor
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: magic
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: breathless girl
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The image of Empedocles in the Hippocratic treatises and the interpretation of some biographical evidences
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