Abstract
In this paper I challenge two earlier suppositions concerning the notion of soul in the Hippocratic de Victu, namely that the author was influenced by "Orphic" or "Pythagorean" ideas, and that he maintained a kind of body-soul dualism. On the one hand, I argue against the dualistic reading and try to show the limits of the alleged "dualism" in de Victu.
On the other hand, I also suggest that there are in the treatise some essential traces of thoughts traditionally connected with Orphics or Pythagoreans as well, including a version of palingenesis, which substantially diverges from Plato’s theory of reincarnation.