This is an article about the ancient physician. For other uses, see Agapius (disambiguation)

Agapius (disambiguation)

Agapius may refer to:*Saint Agapius of Spain , Christian martyr, died at Citra.*Saint Agapius of Palestine Christian martyr, beheaded along with many others under Great Persecution of Diocletian...

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Agapius (Gr.

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language in the periods spanning the times c. 9th–6th centuries BC, , c. 5th–4th centuries BC , and the c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD of ancient Greece and the ancient world; being predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek...

 ) was an ancient physician of Alexandria

Alexandria

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, who taught and practiced medicine at Byzantium

Byzantium

Byzantium was an ancient Greek city, founded by Greek colonists from Megara in 667 BC and named after their king Byzas . The name Byzantium is a Latinization of the original name Byzantion...

 with great success and reputation, and acquired immense riches. Of his date it can only be determined, that he must have lived before the end of the fifth century, as Damascius

Damascius

Damascius , known as "the last of the Neoplatonists," was the last scholarch of the School of Athens. He was one of the pagan philosophers persecuted by Justinian in the early 6th century, and was forced for a time to seek refuge in the Persian court, before being allowed back into the empire...

 (from whom Photius, Biblioth. cod. 242, and the Suda

Suda

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have taken their account of him) lived about that time.