Socrates’ Debt to Asclepius: Physicians and Philosophers with Asclepian Souls in Late Antiquity

This article examines the development of the aspect of health in late Neoplatonic ontology as originated in Proclus and illustrated in Marinus’ Life of Proclus and Damascius’ Life of Isidore. In light of the steadily growing Neoplatonic interest in the philosophic value of the body and the widely sp...

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Main Author: Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Numen
Year: 2016, Volume: 63, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 167-195
Further subjects:B Neoplatonic metaphysics Neoplatonic ontology philosophy and medicine in late antiquity ontology of soul embodiment aretology of body
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