Aristarchus (physician) explained
Aristarchus (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: 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, the wife of Antiochus II Theos, king of Syria, around 261-246 BC, and persuaded her to entrust herself to the hands of her enemy Laodice I after Antiochus's death. This unfortunately ended in the execution of Berenice and her infant son.[1]
- Aristarchus, another physician of obscure history, whose medical prescriptions are quoted by later and more renowned writers such as Galen and Sicamus Aëtius. He appears to have been a native of Tarsus in Cilicia.[2]
Notes and References
- [Polyaenus]
- [Galen]