Medicina ippocratica e filosofia platonica nelle Lettere dello pseudo-Eraclito

Abstract Discussions on the dating and authorship of the Cynical Pseudo-Heraclitean Letters have been going on for a long time and are destined to continue. One could re-examine Letter vi , which has not really attracted the interest of specialists and on which there are very few studies, in order to bring new elements to bear on the philosophical orientation of pseudo-Heraclitus. In this case, one should ask in what sense and to what extent the polemic against doctors and the transposition of medicine which characterise this epistle are “cynical”. In order to answer this question, this article examines not only the traces of Hippocratic theories that Letter vi presents, but also the Platonic expressions and motifs that the author appropriates.