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Pleistonicus
(351 words)
[German version] (Πλειστόνικος;
Pleistónikos). Doctor
fl.
c. 270 BC; he was a pupil of Praxagoras of Cos (Celsus, De medicina, proem. 20) and one of the 'classics' of Greek medicine in the so-called Dogmatic tradition (Dogmatists [2]; Gal. Methodus medendi 2,5; Gal. De examinando medico 5,2). It is difficult to assess his individuality, as, according to tradition- i.e. fundamentally in Galen - his views are transmitted as being in agreement with those of Praxagoras or other Dogmatists. Like his master…
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Glaucias
(360 words)
(Γλαυκίας;
Glaukías). [German version] [1] Bronze sculptor from Aegina Bronze sculptor from Aegina. According to Pausanias, he created statues of the boxers Glaucus, Philo and Theagenes in Olympia, whose victories or honours occurred in the 1…
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Philo
(5,673 words)
[German version] I Greek (Φίλων/
Phíl
ōn). [German version] [I 1] Athenian politician …
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Philinus
(600 words)
(Φιλῖνος;
Philînos). [German version] [1] Athenian politician Athenian. P. proposed absorbing all
thetai (thetes) into the hoplites (
hoplítai ) (Antiph. fr. 61 from the speech
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Agnellus [of Ravenna]
(294 words)
[German version] Iatrosophist and commentator of medical texts around AD 600, Milan. Ambr. G 108 f. contains his commentaries on Galen's
De sectis,
Ars medica,
De pulsibus ad Teuthram and
Ad Glauconem, just as they were recorded by Simplicius (not the famous Aristotle commentator!). The first mentioned is in many places in agreement with a commentary which is ascribed to Iohannes Alexandrinus or Gesius, as well as Greek passages of text, which are associated with Iohannes and Archonides (?). As controversial as the question whethe…
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Alexion
(162 words)
[German version] [1] Physician and friend of Cicero's Physician and friend of Cicero's (Cic. Att. 15,1-3) who died suddenly in 44 BC from an undefinable illness. Cicero's grief about the loss of the
summus medicus did not deter him from inquiring about whom A. had remembered in his testament. Nutton, Vivian (London) [German version] [2] Greek grammarian, 1st cent. AD (Ἀλεξίων;
Alexíōn). Greek grammarian of the 2nd half of the 1st cent. AD, called χωλός (
chōlós; the limping one): he authored an epitome of the
Symmikta by Didymus, which was cited by Herennius Philo and used by Herodianus. Titles are unknown, but he certainly must have worked on Homer: the fragments (many in the Homer scholia by Herodianus and in the Etymologica) contain few exegetic questions, instead mostly etymological and grammatical considerations (writing style, accents, and more). …
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Flavius
(4,130 words)
Roman plebeian gentile name, derived from the individual
cognomen Flavus (‘the blond one’) through the suffix of affiliation
-ius, abbreviated form
Fl. The bearers of the name that was already common in the Republican period were initially politically unimportant; F. [I 5] was the first one to attain to Roman nobility. In the Imperial period the name was spread further in the Roman empire as a result of the granting of citizenship by the Flavian Emperors Vespasian, Titus and Domitian (AD 68-96). In Late Antiquity (4th-6th cents.) F. was initially
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Charmis
(123 words)
[German version] (Χάρμις;
Chármis) Greek physician from Massilia, who went to Rome
c. AD 55. Thanks to his cold-water cures he soon made a name there, and gained many wealthy patients (Plin. HN 29,10). For one treatment he invoiced a patient from the provinces for HS 200,000 (Plin. HN 29, 22), and demanded a similarly exorbitant price of 1,000 Attic drachmas for a single dose of an antidote (Gal. 14,114,127). During his lifetime C. invested HS 20 million in public construction projects in Massilia, and at his death left a similarly large sum. His interests may…
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Lead poisoning
(406 words)
[German version] Even though the analysis of skeletons has shown that lead played a larger role in the classical period than in prehistoric times, the measured values are lower than expected in view of the considerable rise in lead production between 600 BC and AD 500 and its use in the manufacture of household goods and water pipes [1; 2; 3]. As the symptoms of lead poisoning (LP) are very similar to other diseases, there are hardly any descriptions which can be taken as referring to it unambiguo…
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Medicine
(6,211 words)
[German version] I. Mesopotamia Magic formulae - such as spells, apotropaea, and prophylacterics - and rational elements, i.e. empirically derived treatment methods with plant, mineral, or animal substances, characterize the image of medicine in…
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Caelius
(1,467 words)
Plebeian family name (in MSS frequently confused with Coelius), attested from the 2nd cent. BC. (ThlL, Onom. 24-26). I. Republican Age [German version] [I 1] C., C. praetor or propraetor in Gallia Cisalpina in 90 BC
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Aretaeus
(401 words)
[German version] (Ἀρεταῖος;
Aretaîos) of Cappadocia. Greek Hippocratic physician who was influenced by Pneumatic theory. [13] therefore assigned him to the middle of the 1st cent. AD. A.'s name was first mentioned in the late 2nd. cent as the author of a text about prophylactics in Ps.-…
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Galen of Pergamum
(3,449 words)
(Γαλήνος;
Galḗnos) [German version] A. Life AD 129 to
c. 216, Greek doctor and philosopher. As the son of a prosperous architect named Aelius or Iulius Nicon (not Claudius, as older accounts have it), G. enjoyed a wide education, especially in philosophy. When he was 17, Asclepius appeared to Nicon in a dream which turned G. towards a medical career. After studying with Satyrus, Aiphicianus and Stratonicus in Pergamum, G. went to Smyrna
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Polybus
(651 words)
(Πόλυβος;
Pólybos). [German version] [1] Name of numerous peripheral figures in Greek mythology …
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Theodas
(102 words)
[German version] (Θεοδᾶς;
Theodâs) from Laodicea. Greek physician
c. 125 AD; he and Menodotus [2] were pupils of the sceptic Antiochus [20]; he was a leading representative of the School of the Empiricists. He wrote (1.)
Chief points (Κεφάλαια), which Galenus and a later (otherwise unknown) Theodosius commented on; (2.)
On the parts of medicine (Περὶ τῶν τῆς ἰατρικῆς μερῶν), in which he emphasised the significance of autopsy,
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