Herodotus (physician)

Herodotus (/hɪˈrɒdətəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, Hêródotos, Attic Greek pronunciation: [hɛː.ró.do.tos]) was the name of more than one physician in the time of ancient Greece and Rome:

• A pupil of Athenaeus, or perhaps Agathinus,[1] who belonged to the Pneumatic school.[2] He probably lived towards the end of the 1st century AD, and lived at Rome, where he practised medicine with great success.[1] He wrote some medical works, which are several times quoted by Galen and Oribasius, but of which only some fragments remain.
• The son of Arieus, a native either of Tarsus or Philadelphia, who was a Pyrrhonist philosopher and physician who probably belonged to the Empiric school of medicine. He was a pupil of Menodotus of Nicomedia, and tutor to Sextus Empiricus, and lived therefore in the 2nd century AD.[3]
• The physician mentioned by Galen,[4] together with Euryphon, as having recommended human milk in cases of consumption, was probably a different person from either of the preceding, and may have been a contemporary of Euryphon in the 5th century BC.

References

Inline citations

1. Galen, De Differ. Puls., iv. 11, vol. viii.
2. Galen, De Simplic. Medica. Temper. ac Facult., i. 29, col. xi.
3. Laërtius, Diogenes; Yonge, Charles Duke (1853). "Diogenes Laertius: Life of Timon, from Lives of the Philosophers, translated by C.D. Yonge". Peithô's Web: Classics of Rhetoric and Persuasion. London: Henry G. Bohn. Archived from the original on 20 April 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2018. Antiochus again, was the master of Menodotus, of Nicomedia, a skilful physician, and of Theodos, of Laodicea; and Menodotus was the master of Herodotus, of Tarsus, the son of Arieus; Herodotus was the master of Sextus Empiricus, who left ten books of Sceptic Maxims, and other excellent works...
4. Galen, De Bon. et Prav. Aliment. Succ., c. 4. vol. vi.; De Meth. Med., vii. 6. vol. x

Sources referenced

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