Il ruolo degli Abderiti nell’incontro tra Ippocrate e Democrito ([Hipp.] Epist. 10-17).

The people of Abdera were notorious in Antiquity for their lack of political organization as well as for their ignorance and foolishness. In the epistolary novel transmitted within the Hippocratic Corpus (Epist. 10-17), this picture of the Abderites emerges from the role they played in the encounter between Hippocrates and Democritus, who represent respectively Science and Philosophy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]