The meticulous collection and analysis of literary, archaeological and epigraphic sources relating to physicians originating in Sicily or still
active in the island between Hellenism and Late antiquity provide relevant data not only on a quantitative basis and from the point of
view of social research, but also for their peculiar geographical location and the cultural aspects which are possible to be inferred from
anthroponyms mostly Greeks. These data also allow to formulate a hypothesis about the existence in Sicily, alongside the persistent cult
of Asclepius, of two local? scientific? schools of medicine, whose members enjoyed a prestige so large as to exceed the boundaries of
the island and reach the imperial court.