Flashcards: Ancient Greek physicians

Luke the Evangelist (Ancient Greek: Λουκᾶς, Loukãs) is one of the Four Evangelists—the four traditionally ascribed authors of canonical Gospels.

Erasistratus (/ˌɛrəˈsɪstrətəs/; Greek: Ἐρασίστρατος; c. 304 – c. 250 BC) was a Greek anatomist and royal physician under Seleucus I Nicator of Syria.

Diocles of Carystus (/ˈdaɪ.əkliːz/; Greek: Διοκλῆς ὁ Καρύστιος; Latin: Diocles Carystius; also known by the Latin name Diocles Medicus, i.e. "Diocles the physician"; c. 375 BC – c. 295 BC) was a very celebrated Greek physician, born in Carystus, a city on Euboea, Greece.

Paul of Aegina or Paulus Aegineta (Greek: Παῦλος Αἰγινήτης; Aegina, c. 625 – c. 690) was a 7th-century Byzantine Greek physician best known for writing the medical encyclopedia Medical Compendium in Seven Books.

Democedes of Croton (Greek: Δημοκήδης), described in The Histories of Herodotus as "the most skillful physician of his time".

Agnodice or Agnodike (Ancient Greek: Ἀγνοδίκη, Greek pronunciation: [aŋnodíkɛː] c. 4th century BCE) was the first female Athenian physician, midwife, and gynaecologist, whose story was recorded by Gaius Julius Hyginus.

Philistion of Locri (Greek: Φιλιστίων) was a physician and writer on medicine who lived in the 4th century BC.

Zopyrus (Greek: Ζώπυρος; 1st-century BCE) was a surgeon at Alexandria, and the tutor of Apollonius of Citium and Posidonius.

Nicander of Colophon (Greek: Νίκανδρος ὁ Κολοφώνιος Níkandros ho Kolophṓnios; fl. 2nd century BC), Greek poet, physician and grammarian, was born at Claros (Ahmetbeyli in modern Turkey), near Colophon, where his family held the hereditary priesthood of Apollo.

Oribasius or Oreibasius (Greek: Ὀρειβάσιος; c. 320 – 403) was a Greek medical writer and the personal physician of the Roman emperor Julian the Apostate.

Alcmaeon (/ælkˈmiːən/; Greek: Ἀλκμαίων, Alkmaiōn, gen.: Ἀλκμαίωνος; 5th century BCE) of Croton (in Magna Graecia) was one of the most eminent natural philosophers and medical theorists of antiquity.

Pedanius Dioscorides (Ancient Greek: Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης; c. 40 – 90 AD) was a physician, pharmacologist and botanist, the author of De Materia Medica—a 5-volume encyclopedia about herbal medicine and related medicinal substances (a pharmacopeia), that was widely read for more than 1,500 years.

For the son of Mark Antony, see Marcus Antonius Antyllus Antyllus (Ancient Greek: ῎Αντυλλος) was a Greek surgeon, who lived in the 2nd century AD in Rome.

Themison of Laodicea (Greek: Θεμίσων; fl. 1st century BC) was the founder of the Methodic school of medicine, and one of the most eminent physicians of his time.

Philagrius of Epirus (Greek: Φιλάγριος Ηπειρώτης; 3rd century) a Greek medical writer, born in Epirus, lived after Galen and before Oribasius, and therefore probably in the 3rd century.

Serapion of Alexandria, was a physician who lived in the 3rd century BC.

Menodotus (Greek: Μηνόδοτος; 2nd century) of Nicomedia in Bithynia, was a physician; a pupil of Antiochus of Laodicea; and tutor to Herodotus of Tarsus.

Rufus of Ephesus (Greek: Ῥοῦφος ὁ Ἐφέσιος, fl. late 1st century AD) was a Greek physician and author who wrote treatises on dietetics, pathology, anatomy, and patient care.

Aspasia (fl. 1st century CE) was an ancient Greek physician who worked in obstetrics and gynecology.

Apollodorus is the name of two physicians mentioned by Pliny the Elder, one of whom was a native of Citium (modern Kition), in Cyprus, the other of Tarentum (modern Taranto).

Heracleides (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλείδης) of Smyrna was physician, mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius as one of the followers of Hicesius, the head of the Erasistratean school of medicine at Smyrna, who must therefore probably have lived in the first century BCE.

Aelius Promotus (Gr. Αίλιος Προμωτος) was an ancient physician of Alexandria, of whose personal history no particulars are known, and whose date is uncertain.

Polybus (Greek: Πόλυβος; fl. c. 400 BC) was one of the pupils of Hippocrates, and also his son-in-law.

Antonius (Ancient Greek: Ἀντώνιος) was a physician of ancient Greece.

Heracleides (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλείδης) was a physician of ancient Greece who was said to have been the sixteenth in descent from Aesculapius, the son of Hippocrates I, who lived probably in the fifth century BCE.

Syennesis (Ancient Greek: Συέννεσις) of Cyprus was a physician, who must have lived in or before the fourth century BCE, as he is mentioned by Aristotle, who quotes from his writings a passage on the origin of the veins.

Apollonides (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλωνίδης) was the name of a number of physicians of ancient Greece: * Apollonides of Cos * Another Greek physician, who must have lived in the first or second century, as he is said by Galen to have differed from Archigenes respecting the state of the pulse during sleep.

Heraclides of Tarentum (Greek: Ἡρακλείδης; fl. 3rd – 2nd century BC), was a Greek physician of the Empiric school who wrote commentaries on the works of Hippocrates.

Epipodius (French: Épipode) and his companion Alexander (died 178 AD) are venerated as Christian saints.

Philinus of Cos (Greek: Φιλῖνος; 3rd century BC) was a Greek physician.

Medical community as used in this article refers to medical institutions and services offered to populations under the jurisdiction of the late Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.

Abascantus (Greek Ἀβάσκαντος) was a physician of Lugdunum, who probably lived in the 2nd century.

Mnesitheus (Greek: Μνησίθεος; 4th century BC) of Athens, was a Greek physician, who probably lived in the 4th century BC, as he is quoted by the comic poet Alexis.

Apollonides (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλωνίδης) was a physician and surgeon of ancient Greece who was born at Cos, and, like many other of his countrymen, went to the court of Persia, under Artaxerxes Longimanus, 465-425 BCE.

Alexias (Greek: Ἀλεξίας) was an ancient Greek physician who was a pupil of Thrasyas of Mantinea, and lived probably around the middle of the 4th century BC.

Apollonius Glaucus (Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος Γλαῦκος) was a physician and writer who must have lived during or before the 2nd century CE, as his work On Internal Diseases is quoted by Caelius Aurelianus.

Apollonios of Kition (or Apollonius of Citium; Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Κιτιεύς), was a physician (fl. c. 60 BC) belonging to the Empiric school of thought.