Apollophanes of Seleucia
Apollophanes (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλοφάνης) was a native of Seleucia, and physician to Antiochus the Great, king of Syria, from 223 to 187 BCE, with whom, as appears from Polybius, he possessed considerable influence.[1]
Physician Richard Mead, in his Dissert. de Nummis quibusdam a Smyrnaeis in Medicorum Honorem percussis (Lond. 1724, 4to.), thinks that two bronze coins, struck in honor of a person named Apollophanes, refer to the physician of this name; but this is now generally considered to be a mistake.[2] A physician of the same name is mentioned by several ancient medical writers.[3][4]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Polybius, The Histories 5.56, 58
- ^ William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities s. v. Medicus
- ^ Johann Albert Fabricius, Bibliotheca Graeca vol. xiii. p. 76, ed. vet.
- ^ C. G. Kühn, Additam. ad Elenchum Medicorum Veterum a Jo. A. Fabricio, &c, exhibitum, Lips. 4to., 1826. Fascic. iii. p. 8
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Greenhill, William Alexander (1870). "Apollophanes". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 246.
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