Alcmaeon of Croton (mid-fifth century B.C.) was an Ancient Greekphilosopher and medical theorist. Ancient Greece is the term used to describe the Greek-speaking world in ancient times. ... A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. ...
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"Alcmaeon: 'Physikos' or Physician?", J. Mansfield in Kephalaion: Studies in Greek Philosophy and its Continuation Offered to Professor C. J. de Vogel, (Assen, 1975)
A History of Greek Philosophy, Vol. I: The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans, W. K. C. Guthrie, (Cambridge, 1962)
"The Origin of Experimental Medicine in the School of Alcmaeon from Kroton and the Diffusion of His Philosophy within the Mediterranean Area", A. Foca, Skepsis 13-14: 242-253 (2002).
"Alcmeon's and Hippocrates's Concept of Aetia", D. Z. Andriopoulos in Greek Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Pantelis Nicolacopoulos (ed), (Kluwer : Dordrecht, 1990)
Crotone is a city in Calabria, southern Italy, on the Gulf of Taranto.
Croton was then occupied by the Bruttii, with the exception of the citadel, in which the chief inhabitants had taken refuge; these, being unable to defend the place against a Carthaginian force, soon after surrendered, and were allowed to withdraw to Locri.
Crotone's location between the ports of Taranto and Messina, as well as its proximity to a source of hydroelectric power, favored industrial development during the period between the two World Wars.
Alcmaeon, son of Peirithous (otherwise unknown), lived in the Greek city of Croton on the instep of the boot of Italy.
Alcmaeon developed the first argument for the immortality of the soul, but the testimonia concerning it differ slightly from one another, and it appears to have been taken over and developed by Plato, so that it is very hard to determine exactly how to reconstruct Alcmaeon's own argument.
Alcmaeon's influence was significant in three final ways: 1) His identification of the brain as the seat of human intelligence influenced Philolaus (B13), the Hippocratic Treatise, On the Sacred Disease, and Plato (Timaeus 44d), although a number of thinkers including Empedocles and Aristotle continued to regard the heart as the seat of perception and intelligence.
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