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Iatrosophist
Iatrosophist ( grc, ἰατροσοφιστής, la, iatrosophista) is an ancient title designating a professor of medicine. It comes from grc, ἰᾱτρός 'doctor' and grc, σοϕιστής 'learned person'."sophist, n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2018, https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/184755. Accessed 29 August 2018. People who have been referred to by the title include: * Adamantius * Cassius Iatrosophista * Gessius of Petra * Magnus of Nisibis * Oribasius * Palladius (physician) * Paul of Aegina * * Zeno of Cyprus See also *Iatrosophia ''Iatrosophia'' ( grc, ιατρoσóφια, literally 'medical wisdom'), is a genre of Greek medical literature, originating in Byzantium. It comprises medical handbooks containing recipes or therapeutic advice, but the term can also be used of o ... References {{reflist Byzantine physicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iatrosophia
''Iatrosophia'' ( grc, ιατρoσóφια, literally 'medical wisdom'), is a genre of Greek medical literature, originating in Byzantium. It comprises medical handbooks containing recipes or therapeutic advice, but the term can also be used of orally transmitted medical knowledge. Etymology The term comes from grc, ἰᾱτρός 'doctor' and grc, σοϕία 'knowledge', and gave rise to the term ''Iatrosophist'' ( grc, ἰατροσοφιστής, la, iatrosophista), denoting a professor of medicine (from grc, ἰᾱτρός 'doctor' and grc, σοϕιστής 'learned person'). Origins and development It is thought that the ''iatrosophia'' genre arose in Byzantine hospitals, as compendia of recipes and therapeutic advice. The earliest known examples date from perhaps as early as the tenth century CE, but they survive in large numbers only from the fifteenth century onwards. After the fall of Byzantium, the iatrosophist tradition was maintained by Greek Orthodox monaste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adamantius (physician)
Adamantius ( grc-gre, Αδαμάντιος) was an ancient physician, bearing the title of iatrosophist (; broadly, "professor of medicine"). Little is known of his personal history, except that he was Jewish by birth, and that he was one of those who fled from Alexandria at the time of the expulsion of the Jews from that city by the Patriarch Cyril of Alexandria in 415. He went to Constantinople, was persuaded to embrace Christianity, apparently by Archbishop Atticus of Constantinople, and then returned to Alexandria. Adamantius is the author of a Greek treatise on physiognomy () in two books. It is still extant, and borrows in a great measure (as Adamantius himself confesses) from Polemon's work on the same subject. It is dedicated to "Constantius", who is supposed by Fabricius to be the same Constantius who married Placidia (i.e. Constantius III), the daughter of Theodosius the Great, and who reigned for seven months in conjunction with the Emperor Honorius. It was fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gessius Of Petra
Gessius of Petra (Greek: Γέσιος, ''Gesios'')''Suda Online''Γ 486/ref> was a physician, iatrosophist and pagan philosopher active in Alexandria in the late 5th and early 6th century.Edward J. Watts"The Enduring Legacy of the Iatrosophist Gessius" ''Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies'' 49.1 (2009), pp. 113–133. Gessius was a native of the region of Petra. According to Damascius, who is the main source for Gessius' biography in the ''Suda'', he was from Petra itself. Stephanus of Byzantium, on the other hand, writes that he came from the agricultural region of el-Ji (today Wadi Musa) not far from Petra. His father's name is unknown.Robert C. Caldwell and Traianos Gagos, "Beyond the Rock: Petra in the Sixth Century CE in the Light of the Papyri", Thomas Evan Levy, P. M. Michele Daviau and Randall W. Younker (eds.), ''Crossing Jordan: North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan'' (Equinox, 2007), pp. 417–434. He may have been descended from the Gessius who was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassius Iatrosophista
Cassius Felix (), also Cassius Felix of Cirta, was a Roman African medical writer probably native of Constantina. He is known for having written in AD 447 a Latin treatise titled ''De Medicina''. The little we can say of the author comes from his book, that is meant to be a simple handbook for practical use in which he wants others to be able to take advantage of his experience as a physician. His work appears to draw heavily, both directly and indirectly, on Greek medical sources, as was common in the African school of medicine. A Christian by faith, he may be the person mentioned in passing in the anonymous '' De miraculis Sancti Stephani'', a work written between 418 and 427, where a certain Felix is referred as holding the high medical dignity of archiater, or chief doctor of his community. The ''editio princeps'' of his work was first published in 1879 in a Teubner edition edited by Valentin Rose. The name Cassius Felix is sometimes also applied to Cassius Iatrosophista, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnus Of Nisibis
Magnus, meaning "Great" in Latin, was used as cognomen of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus in the first century BC. The best-known use of the name during the Roman Empire is for the fourth-century Western Roman Emperor Magnus Maximus. The name gained wider popularity in the Middle Ages among various European people who lived in Stykkishólmur in their royal houses, being introduced to them upon being converted to the Latin-speaking Catholic Christianity. This was especially the case with Scandinavian royalty and nobility. As a Scandinavian forename, it was extracted from the Frankish ruler Charlemagne's Latin name "Carolus Magnus" and re-analyzed as Old Norse ''magn-hús'' = "power house". People Given name Kings of Hungary * Géza I (1074–1077), also known by his baptismal name Magnus. Kings of Denmark * Magnus the Good (1042–1047), also Magnus I of Norway King of Livonia * Magnus, Duke of Holstein (1540–1583) King of Mann and the Isles * Magnús Óláfsson (died 1265) K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oribasius
Oribasius or Oreibasius ( el, Ὀρειβάσιος; c. 320 – 403) was a Greek medical writer and the personal physician of the Roman emperor Julian. He studied at Alexandria under physician Zeno of Cyprus before joining Julian's retinue. He was involved in Julian's coronation in 361, and remained with the emperor until Julian's death in 363. In the wake of this event, Oribasius was banished to foreign courts for a time, but was later recalled by the emperor Valens. Works Oribasius's major works, written at the behest of Julian, are two collections of excerpts from the writings of earlier medical scholars, a collection of excerpts from Galen and the ''Medical Collections'' (Ἰατρικαὶ Συναγωγαί, ''Iatrikai Synagogai''; Latin: ''Collectiones medicae''), a massive compilation of excerpts from other medical writers of the ancient world. The first of these works is entirely lost, and only 25 of the 70 (or 72) books of the ''Collectiones'' survive. This work pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palladius (physician)
Palladius ( el, Παλλάδιος; c. 6th century) was a Greek medical writer, some of whose works are still extant. Nothing is known of the events of his life, but, as he is commonly called ''Iatrosophistes'', he is supposed to have gained that title by having been a professor of medicine at Alexandria. His date is uncertain; he may have lived in the 6th or 7th centuries. All that can be pronounced with certainty is that he quotes Galen and is himself quoted by Rhazes. Three of his works are extant:Eleanor Dickey, (2007), ''Ancient Greek Scholarship: A Guide to Finding, Reading, and Understanding Scholia, Commentaries, Lexica, and Grammatical Treatises'', page 44. Oxford University Press *Commentary on Hippocrates' ''On fractures'' *Commentary on book VI of Hippocrates' ''Epidemics'' *Commentary on Galen's ''On the Sects'' His Commentaries on Hippocrates Hippocrates of Kos (; grc-gre, Ἱπποκράτης ὁ Κῷος, Hippokrátēs ho Kôios; ), also known as Hippocrates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Of Aegina
Paul of Aegina or Paulus Aegineta ( el, Παῦλος Αἰγινήτης; Aegina, ) was a 7th-century Byzantine Greek physician best known for writing the medical encyclopedia ''Medical Compendium in Seven Books.'' He is considered the “Father of Early Medical Writing”. For many years in the Byzantine Empire, his works contained the sum of all Western medical knowledge and was unrivaled in its accuracy and completeness. Life Nothing is known about his life, except that he was born in the island of Aegina, and that he travelled a good deal, visiting, among other places, Alexandria. He is sometimes called ''Iatrosophistes'' and ''Periodeutes'', a word which probably means a physician who travelled from place to place in the exercise of his profession. The exact time when he lived is not known; but, as he quotes Alexander of Tralles, and is himself quoted by Yahya ibn Sarafyun (''Serapion the Elder''), it is probable that Abu-al-Faraj is correct in placing him in the latter half ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zeno Of Cyprus
Zeno of Cyprus ( grc, Ζήνων ὁ Κύπριος), (4th century), was a Greek physician, a native of Cyprus, and the tutor of Ionicus, Magnus, and Oribasius.Eunapius, ''Vit. Philos.'' Eunapius states that he lived "down to the time of Julian the Sophist", i.e. Julian of Caesarea, who died at Athens in 340. Emily Wilmer Cave Wright, (1913), "Introduction" in ''The Works of the Emperor Julian'', volume III. Loeb Classical Library. It is unlikely that he can be identified with the Zeno who practised medicine at Alexandria, and who was expelled by the Bishop George of Cappadocia George of Cappadocia (Greek: Γεώργιος ό Καππάδοκης) died 24 December 361) was the intruding Arian bishop of Alexandria from 356 until his martyrdom. George was born, according to Ammianus Marcellinus, at Epiphania in Cilicia ... in 360, before being restored to his post by the emperor Julian, around 361. Notes {{authority control 4th-century Greek physicians Ancient Cypriots ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
