A Didactic Poem by Marcellus of Side on the Healing Value of Sea Fishes Cover Image

Poemat dydaktyczny Markellosa z Side o leczniczych walorach ryb morskich
A Didactic Poem by Marcellus of Side on the Healing Value of Sea Fishes

Author(s): Konrad Tomasz Tadajczyk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: ancient medicine; dactylic hexameter; didactic poetry; Greek ichtyonymy; kinds of fish; Marcellus of Side; Mediterranean Sea; sea animals

Summary/Abstract: 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.

  • Issue Year: XXXI/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 27-42
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish