Servilio Damocrate: un medico poeta alla corte giulio-claudia?

Authors

  • Margherita Cassia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13135/2039-4985/3467

Abstract

Servilio Damocrate, medico e poeta ricordato da Plinio il Vecchio e da Galeno, viene menzionato anche in un’iscrizione da Blaundos in Lidia. Il confronto con altre testimonianze – epigrafiche, numismatiche e letterarie – consente di ipotizzare che egli abbia svolto la funzione di archiatra presso la corte giulio-claudia, dalla fase finale del regno di Tiberio fino all’età neroniana.

 

Servilius Damocrates, a physician and poet named by Pliny the Elder and Galen, is also mentioned in an inscription from Blaundos in Lydia. The comparison with other epigraphic, numismatic and literary testimonies suggests that he was chief physician at the Julio-Claudian court, from the final period of Tiberius’ reign to the Neronian era.

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Published

2019-07-10

Issue

Vol. 8 (2018)

Section

Saggi

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