[Archigenes as author of the Greek text? Response to Erwin Rhode's thesis]

Erwin Rohde developed the thesis that the treatise [symbol: see text] of the so-called Aelius Promotus is an excerpt from the work of Archigenes. Above all he bases his thesis on three passages of the treatise, for which other authors in related texts named Archigenes as the source. It could be shown that these passages only prove that Archigenes is the source of these particular extracts. It is not possible to determine the authorship of the entire treatise from these passages. Therefore the author remains unknown. It is however possible to provide more exact comments on the origins of the treatise. It became clear that excerpts by other physicians were added to an older already existing text. These Greek physicians, as far as they can be dated, lived in the 2nd century A.D. at the latest. It should also be stated, that Aetius of Amida was the first person who used definitely the treatise. To a core, which can be dated to the 2nd century A.D. at the latest, were then added further quotations from other physicians in the 6th century at the latest.