Project Description
Philumeni De venenatis animalibus eorumque remediis et fragmenta
My project aims to offer a new critical edition with commentary of the iologic treatise transmitted under the name of the physician Philumenus (2nd/3rd century) and first and only published by Max Wellmann in 1908 with the title De venenatis animalibus eorumque remediis. The need for a new edition arises from the close study of the only manuscript transmitting the text of Philumenus: the codex Vaticanus graecus 284 (10th/11th century). This is in fact a late antique pharmacological compilation based on multiple sources. Therefore, what has hitherto been considered Philumenus is a synthesis between Philumenus and Ps.-Dioscorides' Theriaca. My new editorial criteria will thus be based on this new stemmatic relationship.