Description

• Title:
  A Didactic Poem by Marcellus of Side on the Healing Value of Sea Fishes
• Creator:
  Tadajczyk, Konrad
• Description:
  The article describes a preserved poetic fragment commonly called De piscibus, written by Marcellus of Side. He was a physician and a renowned epic poet, who lived in the town of Side (Pamphylia) in the second century AD. In the analyzed fragment (v. 41–101), being an extract from his didactic epos entitled Cheironides, Marcellus of Side presents a number of remedies prepared from some marine animals, especially fishes, living in the Mediterranean Sea.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2021 Konrad Tadajczyk
• Date:
  2021.12.30
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae; Vol. 31 No. 2 (2021); 27-42;
  Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae; Tom 31 Nr 2 (2021); 27-42;
  2720-2305;
  0302-7384
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sppgl/article/view/30899/27313
• Subject:
  ancient medicine;
  dactylic hexameter;
  didactic poetry;
  Greek ichtyonymy;
  kinds of fish;
  Marcellus of Side;
  Mediterranean Sea;
  sea animals
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sppgl/article/view/30899
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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  seek permission
• Type:
  text