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Darrera modificació: 2025-09-15
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Kokoszko, Maciej - Rzeźnicka, Zofia, "On Young Hares in a Spiced Sauce: Poisonous Turtledoves and Hunting for Bustards in Anthimus's De observatione ciborum", dins: Oberhelman. Steven M. (ed.), Tome 3: Remedies. Pharmacy, Drugs, Archaeology, Tradition, Berlín, De Gruyter (Medical Traditions, 6-3), 2025, pp. 331-354.
- Resum
- De observatione ciborum, which was penned by an author whose name reads in Latin Anthimus and in Greek Ἄνθιμος, is a collection of culinary recipes (incorporating abundant dietetic advice) addressed to Theuderich (b. ca. 485–533/534), who became king of the Franks in 511. It was likely compiled in the 6th century. The author of De observatione ciborum is commonly agreed to have been the physician mentioned by Malchus of Philadelphia (fl. end 5th century) in his Byzantine History (Βυζαντιακά). According to this historian, Anthimus, on a charge of plotting against emperor Zeno (b. ca. 425–491, r. 474–475, 476–491), was exiled from Constantinople in 478. The doctor's later life is contested, though it is often maintained that he spent the rest of his life among the Goths. During that period, Anthimus was dispatched by Theodoric the Great (b. ca. 451/454, King of the Ostrogoths 469/472, ruler of Italy 489/493, d. 526) on a diplomatic mission to Theuderic's court, bearing his own work as a gift to the Frankish ruler. However, Yitzhak Hen disputes these claims, suggesting that the author of De observatione ciborum, after a short stay with the Goths, returned to Constantinople from his exile between 491 and 497 and was sent as an envoy to the Franks (at least twice) by Byzantine emperor Anastasius (b. ca. 430, emperor 491, d. 518).
- Matèries
- Medicina - Dietètica i higiene
Fonts
Alimentació
Llatí
- URL
- https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110780062-014
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