Aristoxenus (physician)

Aristoxenus (Gr. Ἀριστόξενος) was a Greek physician of Asia Minor who was quoted by Caelius Aurelianus.[1][2] He was a pupil of Alexander Philalethes and contemporary of Demosthenes Philalethes,[3][4] and must therefore have lived around the 1st century BC. He was a follower of the teachings of Herophilos,[3] and studied at the celebrated Herophilean school at the village of Men-Carus, between Laodicea and Carura. He wrote a work Περὶ τῆς Ἡροφίλου Αἱρέσεως (On the Herophilean Sect, Latin: De Herophili Secta), of which the thirteenth book is quoted by Galen,[3] but which is no longer extant.[5]

References

1. Caelius Aurelianus, On Acute and Chronic Diseases iii. 16, p. 233
2. Greenhill, William Alexander (1867). "Alexander Philalethes". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 345.
3. Galen, De Differ. Puls. iv. 10, vol. viii. p. 743-746
4. Von Staden, Heinrich (1989). Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23646-0.
5. Mahne, "Diatribe de Aristoxeno," Amstel. 1793 octavo

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Aristoxenus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.