Empedocles
Medical Discourse (lost)
Traditional attribution
Medical Discourse (lost)
Ἰατρικὸς λόγος
A medical poem of six hundred lines, lost. Tradition made Empedocles the founder of the Sicilian medical school, and some of the surviving lines of On Nature deal with breathing, the blood and generation.
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Authorship note
An unverifiable ancient attribution. Diogenes Laertius (VIII 77) credits him with a Medical Discourse of six hundred lines. It may be part of On Nature or a work of his medical school.
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Other works by Empedocles
- On Nature · 450
- Purifications · 445
- Strasbourg papyrus (fragments of On Nature, book I) · 90
- The Crossing of Xerxes (lost)
- Proem to Apollo (lost)
- Tragedies (disputed attribution)
- Political writings (lost)
- Epigrams (doubtful attribution)
- The Sphere (spurious)
- Book of the Five Substances and other Arabic texts (spurious)
Sources
- Diógenes Laercio. Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres VIII 51–77 (Empédocles), s. III d. C. Trad. inglesa de C. D. Yonge, Bohn, Londres, 1853 (Project Gutenberg n.º 57342); trad. inglesa de R. D. Hicks, Loeb, 1925 (Wikisource).
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