In defence of the Aeneid physician Iapyx Iasides in honour and pietas Physicians
Abstract
This paper is written in response to modern commentator comments and characterizations on Iapyx Iasides’ character, behavior, and abilities as a physician and surgeon to treat the wounded Aeneas by an arrowhead, recorded in book XII of the Aeneid, a context that also implicates the intermediary agencies of Apollo and Venus. In addition to intertextuality, this paper offers a missing interdisciplinary spectrum of explanatory conditions and arguments in support of the conduct and performance of the ancient physician in honor and pietas.
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