caa a22 4500 388106492 CHVBK 20180307125339.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/632311 doi S0075426900018681 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/632311 Polito Roberto St John's College, Cambridge On the life of Asclepiades of Bithynia [Elektronische Daten] [Roberto Polito] Any list of the most eminent Greek physicians must inevitably include the late Hellenistic doctor Asclepiades of Bithynia. He was both extremely successful during his lifetime, and highly influential after his death. His revolutionary pathology and therapeutic method were the objects of much discussion. His importance, however, goes beyond the history of medicine as such. In spite of the fact that most current handbooks of ancient philosophy ignore him altogether, philosophy does appear to have been a major interest of his. He was an uncompromising opponent of providentialism and teleology. He challenged the idea, at the time the dominant one, that matter is continuous. He accounted for the functioning of the body in purely mechanistic and quantitative terms, and also developed an account of the soul, unique in its time, which arguably provides the closest ancient antecedent to modern reductionism. Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1999 The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 119(1999-11), 48-66 0075-4269 119<48 1999 119 JHS https://doi.org/10.2307/632311 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/632311 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Polito Roberto St John's College, Cambridge NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 119(1999-11), 48-66 0075-4269 119<48 1999 119 JHS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge