Athenion (grc|Ἀθηνίων) was a physician of ancient Greece, probably from Athens.[1] He was mentioned by the physician and medical writer Soranus of Ephesus as being a member of the Empiric school, and a follower of the celebrated anatomist Erasistratus, and so must therefore have lived some time between the third century BCE and the first century CE.[2]
Soranus writes that Athenion believed that there were diseases peculiar to women,[3] [4] or at least conditions peculiar to women, that merited women's health being looked at differently from the way men's health was.[5]
There is another obscure physician of this name whose works are mentioned by Aulus Cornelius Celsus, who may be the same person.[6]
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