Aristarchus ( grc, Ἀρίσταρχος) was the name of at least two people of classical antiquity known to be physicians: * Aristarchus, a Greek physician, of whom no particulars are known, except that he was attached to the court of

Berenice Berenice ( grc, Βερενίκη, ''Bereníkē'') is the Ancient Macedonian form of the Attic Greek name ''Pherenikē'', which means "bearer of victory" . Berenika, priestess of Demeter in Lete ca. 350 BC, is the oldest epigraphical evidence. ...

, the wife of

Antiochus II Theos Antiochus II Theos ( grc-gre, Ἀντίοχος Θεός, ; 286 – July 246 BC) was a Greek king of the Hellenistic period, Hellenistic Seleucid Empire who reigned from 261 to 246 BC. He succeeded his father Antiochus I Soter in the winter of ...

, king of Syria, around 261-246 BC, and persuaded her to entrust herself to the hands of her enemy

Laodice I Laodice I ( el, Λαοδίκη; flourished 3rd century BC, died before 236 BC) was a Greek noblewoman of Anatolia who was a close relative of the early Seleucid dynasty and was the first wife of the Seleucid Greek King Antiochus II Theos. Family ...

after Antiochus's death. This unfortunately ended in the execution of Berenice and her infant son. * Aristarchus, another physician of obscure history, whose medical prescriptions are quoted by later and more renowned writers such as

Galen Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus ( el, Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; September 129 – c. AD 216), often Anglicized as Galen () or Galen of Pergamon, was a Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire. Considered to be one of ...

and

Sicamus Aëtius Sicamus Aëtius ( grc-gre, Σικάμιος ὁ Ἀέτιος), sometimes called Aëtius Sicanius or Siculus, was a Byzantine medical writer and the author of a treatise ''On Melancholy'' (), Latin ''De Melancholia'', which is commonly printed amon ...

. He appears to have been a native of Tarsus in Cilicia.

, ''De Compos. Medicam. ec. Loc.'' 5.11, vol. xiii. p. 824

References

{{DGRBM, author=WAG, title=Aristarchus (physician) (1), (2), volume=1, page=291, url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/acl3129.0001.001/306 3rd-century BC Greek physicians