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Thrasyllos: Glück im Wahn (35 Aufrufe)
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Aelian, Varia historia IV 25:
Thrasyllus of the deme of Aexone suffered a strange new form of madness. He left the city and went down to live at the Piraeus. He imagined that all the ships coming into harbour there were his own. He made a list of them, attended when they departed once more, and was delighted when they returned safely to the harbour.

For a long time he continued to suffer from this mania. But his brother, returning from Sicily, handed him over to a doctor to be cured, and in this way he recovered from the illness. He often recalled his mad hobby and used to say that he had never been so happy as when he rejoiced at the sight of ships which did not belong to him returning safely.


Vgl. Athenaios 554E-F:

Heracleides of Pontus in his On Pleasure (fr. 56 Wehrli) offers quite an amusing account of a very pleasant style of luxury that involved insanity. He writes as follows.

Thrasyllus the son of Pythodorus of the deme Aexone became so unbalanced at one point that he was convinced that all the ships putting into the Piraeus belonged to him; he kept lists of them, ordered them out to sea, made all the necessary arrangements, and received them back into port with as much joy as someone would feel if he were actually that rich. When they were lost, he asked no questions about them; but he was delighted when they returned safely, and he lived an extremely happy life.

When his brother Clito, who was visiting from Sicily, took charge of him, and turned him over to a physician and got him cured of his madness, he explained <...> saying that he had never been happier in his life; because he was never upset about anything, and the amount of pleasure he experienced was extraordinary.

 
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