Il medico isotheos del De decenti habitu ippocratico
The paper explores the notion of divine and its relationship with medicine in the Hippocratic treatise Decorum, which deals with ethical rules for physicians. After a general overview about the interrelation between medicine and religion in the Hippocratic Collection as well as in Galen, I provide a complete analysis of two central chapters of Decorum. On the one hand, the author assimilates the ideal physician to a god through the sentence « the physician who is a philosopher is godlike » (chapter 5).