Menodotus of
Nicomedia
Nicomedia (; el, Νικομήδεια, ''Nikomedeia''; modern İzmit) was an ancient Greek city located in what is now Turkey. In 286, Nicomedia became the eastern and most senior capital city of the Roman Empire (chosen by the emperor Diocletia ...
( el, Μηνόδοτος ὁ Νικομηδεύς; 2nd century CE), in
Bithynia
Bithynia (; Koine Greek: , ''Bithynía'') was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), adjoining the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, and the Black Sea. It bordered Mysia to the southwest, Pa ...
, was a
physician
A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...
and
Pyrrhonist
Pyrrho of Elis (; grc, Πύρρων ὁ Ἠλεῖος, Pyrrhо̄n ho Ēleios; ), born in Elis, Greece, was a Greek philosopher of Classical antiquity, credited as being the first Greek skeptic philosopher and founder of Pyrrhonism.
Life
...
philosopher
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; a pupil of
Antiochus of Laodicea; and tutor to
Herodotus of Tarsus. He belonged to the
Empiric school
The Empiric school of medicine (''Empirics'', ''Empiricists'', or ''Empirici'', el, Ἐμπειρικοί) was a school of medicine founded in Alexandria the middle of the third century BC. The school was a major influence on ancient Greek and Ro ...
, and lived probably about the beginning of the 2nd century CE. He refuted some of the opinions of
Asclepiades of Bithynia, and was exceedingly severe against the
Dogmatists. He enjoyed a considerable reputation in his day, and is several times quoted and mentioned by
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 ...
.
[Galen, ''De Cur. Rat. per Ven. Sect.'' c. 9; ''Comment, in Hippocr. "De Artic"'' iii. 62; ''Comment, in Hippocr. "De Rat. Vict. in Morb. Acut."'' iv. 17; ''De Libr. Propr.'' c. 9; ''De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos'', vi. i.] He appears to have written some works which are quoted by
Diogenes Laërtius
Diogenes Laërtius ( ; grc-gre, Διογένης Λαέρτιος, ; ) was a biographer of the Ancient Greece, Greek philosophers. Nothing is definitively known about his life, but his surviving ''Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'' is a ...
, but are not now extant.
Notes
References
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Lorenzo Perilli Lorenzo Perilli is an Italian classicist and academic at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. A Professor of Classical Philology, he is Head of the Institute of Literature, Philosophy and Art history, and the Director of the interdisciplinary Researc ...
Menodoto di Nicomedia. Contributo a una storia galeniana della medicina empirica München-Leipzig, Saur Verlag, 2004
Pyrrhonism
2nd-century Greek physicians
People from Bithynia
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Ancient Greek epistemologists
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