This is an alphabetical list of writers from Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece is a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in Ancient Greece is the...

 and Rome

Rome

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 who were doctors, or have left us material that contributes to our knowledge of ancient medicine. In some cases their names look familiar but are not the same as their famous homonym

Homonym

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s (thus earning them an epithet

Epithet

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• Aulus Cornelius Celsus
  Aulus Cornelius Celsus
  Aulus Cornelius Celsus was a Roman encyclopedist, known for his extant medical work, De Medicina, which is believed to be the only surviving section of a much larger encyclopedia. The De Medicina is a primary source on diet, pharmacy, surgery and related fields, and it is one of the best sources...
  
   (1st century AD)

• Adamantius Judaeus
  Adamantius
  Adamantius was an ancient physician, bearing the title of Iatrosophista . Little is known of his personal history, except that he was Jewish by birth, and that he was one of those who fled from Alexandria at the time of the expulsion of the Jews from that city by the Patriarch Cyril of Alexandria...
  
   (4th century)

• Aegimus
  Aegimus
  Aegimus or Aegimius was one of the most ancient of the Greek physicians, who is said by Galen to have been the first person who wrote a treatise on the pulse. He was a native of Velia in Lucania, and is supposed to have lived before the time of Hippocrates, that is, in the 5th century BC. His...
  
  

• Aëtius Amidenus
  Aëtius Amidenus
  Aëtius of Amida was a Byzantine physician and medical writer, particularly distinguished by the extent of his erudition. Historians are not agreed about his exact date...
  
   (6th century)

• Agathinus
  Agathinus
  Agathinus was an eminent ancient Greek physician, the founder of a new medical sect, to which he gave the name of Episynthetici.He was born at Sparta and must have lived in the 1st century AD, as he was the pupil of Athenaeus, and the tutor of Archigenes...
  
   (1st century AD)

• Aglaïs Poet. (physician) (1st century AD)

• Aias/Abas (5th-4th century BC)

• Alexander Trallianus (6th century AD)

• Andromachus (physician)
  Andromachus (physician)
  Andromachus was the name of two Greek physicians, father and son, who lived in the time of Nero.*Andromachus the Elder, was born in Crete, and was physician to Nero, 54-68 AD...
  
   (1st century AD)

• Antonius Castor (2nd century AD)

• Apollonius of Citium (1st century BC)

• Apollonius (physician)
  Apollonius (physician)
  Apollonius was the name of several physicians in the time of Ancient Greece and Rome:*Apollonius Antiochenus, , was the name of two physicians, father and son, who were born at Antioch, and belonged to the Empiric school. They lived after Serapion of Alexandria, and before Menodotus, and therefore...
  
   (3rd century BC)

• Archigenes
  Archigenes
  Archigenes , an eminent ancient Greek physician, who lived in the 1st and 2nd centuries.He was the most celebrated of the sect of the Eclectici, and was a native of Apamea in Syria; he practised at Rome in the time of Trajan, 98-117, where he enjoyed a very high reputation for his professional skill...
  
   (2nd century AD)

• Aretaeus (2nd century AD)

• Aristotle
  Aristotle
  Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology...
  
   (4th century BC)

• Asclepiades Pharmacion
  Asclepiades Pharmacion
  Asclepiades Pharmacion or Asclepiades Junior , a Greek physician who must have lived at the end of the 1st or the beginning of the 2nd century, as he quotes Andromachus, Dioscorides, and Scribonius Largus, and is himself quoted by Galen...
  
   (1st-2nd century AD)

• Asclepiades of Bithynia
  Asclepiades of Bithynia
  Asclepiades was a Greek physician born at Prusa in Bithynia in Asia Minor and flourished at Rome, where he established Greek medicine near the end of the 2nd century BCE. He attempted to build a new theory of disease, based on the flow of atoms through pores in the body...
  
   (2nd-1st century BC)

• Athenaeus of Cilicia
  Athenaeus of Cilicia
  Athenaeus of Attalia , was a physician, and the founder of the Pneumatic school of medicine. He was born in Cilicia, at Attalia according to Galen, or at Tarsus according Caelius Aurelianus...
  
   (1st century BC)

• Aulus Gellius
  Aulus Gellius
  Aulus Gellius , was a Latin author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up in Rome. He was educated in Athens, after which he returned to Rome, where he held a judicial office...
  
   (2nd century AD)

• Bolus of Mende

• Caelius Aurelianus
  Caelius Aurelianus
  Caelius Aurelianus of Sicca in Numidia was a Roman physician and writer on medical topics. He is best known for his translation from Greek to Latin of a work by Soranus of Ephesus, On Acute and Chronic Diseases. He probably flourished in the 5th century, although some place him two or even three...
  
   (5th century)

• Cassius Felix
  Cassius Felix
  Cassius Felix is a Roman African medical writer probaby native of Constantina. He is known for having written in AD 447 a Latin treatise titled De Medicina. The little we can say of the author comes from his book, that is meant to be a simple handbook for practical use in which he wants others to...
  
   (3rd century)

• Charixenus (2nd century AD)

• Crateuas (physician) (2nd century BC)

• Criton of Heraclea
  Criton of Heraclea
  Criton of Heraclea was a 2nd century Greek chief physician and procurator of Roman Emperor Trajan in the campaign in Dacia....
  
   (1st-2nd century AD)

• Ctesias
  Ctesias
  Ctesias of Cnidus was a Greek physician and historian from Cnidus in Caria. Ctesias, who lived in the 5th century BC, was physician to Artaxerxes Mnemon, whom he accompanied in 401 BC on his expedition against his brother Cyrus the Younger....
  
   (5th century BC)

• Damocrates
  Damocrates
  Servilius Damocrates was a Greek physician at Rome in the middle to late 1st century CE. He may have received the praenomen "Servillius" from his having become a client of the Servilia gens. Galen calls him άριστός ἰατρός, and Pliny says he was "e primis medentium," and relates his cure of...
  
   (1st century AD)

• Demetrius of Apamea
  Demetrius of Apamea
  Demetrius of Apamea was a Hellenistic physiologist of the Herophilean school.He studied the sexual organs, focusing his attention on the treatment of ailments - instead of the reproductive physiology that was studied under Herophilos....
  
  

• Dexippus of Cos
  Dexippus of Cos
  Dexippus of Cos, , a Greek physician of Cos, who was one of the pupils of the celebrated Hippocrates, and lived in the 4th century BC...
  
  

• Dieuches
  Dieuches
  Dieuches, , a Greek physician, who lived probably in the 4th century BC, and belonged to the Dogmatic school of medicine. He was tutor to Numenius of Heraclea, and is several times quoted by Pliny. He wrote some medical works, of which nothing but a few fragments remain....
  
  

• Diocles of Carystus
  Diocles of Carystus
  Diocles of Carystus , a very celebrated Greek physician, was born at Carystus in Euboea, lived not long after the time of Hippocrates, to whom Pliny says he was next in age and fame. Not much is known of his life, other that he lived and worked in Athens, where he wrote what may be the first...
  
  

• Dioscorides (1st century AD)

• Erasistratus
  Erasistratus
  Erasistratus was a Greek anatomist and royal physician under Seleucus I Nicator of Syria. Along with fellow physician Herophilus, he founded a school of anatomy in Alexandria, where they carried out anatomical research...
  
   (3rd century BC)

• Erotianus
  Erotianus
  Erotianus was the author of a Greek work still extant, entitled Collection of Hippocratic words . It is uncertain whether he was himself a physician, and try to solve father of medicine Hippocrates or merely a grammarian, but he appears to have written some other works on Hippocrates besides...
  
   (1st century AD)

• Eudemus (physician)
  Eudemus (physician)
  Eudemus was the name of several Greek physicians, whom it is difficult to distinguish with certainty:* A druggist, who apparently lived in the 4th or 3rd century BC...
  
  

• Euthydemus (physician)

• Fronto

• Galen
  Galen
  Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus , better known as Galen of Pergamon , was a prominent Roman physician, surgeon and philosopher...
  
   (2nd century AD)

• Gargilius Martialis (3rd century)

• Harpocratio (1st-2nd century AD)

• Heliodorus
  Heliodorus
  -People:Several persons named Heliodorus are known to us from ancient times, the best known of which are:*Heliodorus a minister of Seleucus IV Philopator ca...
  
   (1st-2nd century AD)

• Heraclas

• Heraclides of Tarentum
  Heraclides of Tarentum
  Heraclides of Tarentum, , was a Greek physician of the Empiric school who wrote commentaries on the works of Hippocrates....
  
   (1st century BC)

• Herodotus (physician)
  Herodotus (physician)
  Herodotus was the name of more than one physician in the time of ancient Greece and Rome:*A pupil of Athenaeus, or perhaps Agathinus, who belonged to the Pneumatic school. He probably lived towards the end of the 1st century AD, and lived at Rome, where he practised medicine with great success...
  
   (1st century AD)

• Herophilus
  Herophilos
  Herophilos , sometimes Latinized Herophilus , was a Greek physician. Born in Chalcedon, he spent the majority of his life in Alexandria. He was the first scientist to systematically perform scientific dissections of human cadavers and is deemed to be the first anatomist. Herophilos recorded his...
  
   (3rd century BC)

• Hicesius (physician)
  Hicesius (physician)
  Hicesius, , a Greek physician, who lived probably at the end of the 1st century BC, as he is quoted by Crito, and lived shortly before Strabo. He was a follower of Erasistratus, and was at the head of a celebrated medical school established at Smyrna...
  
   (1st century BC)

• Hippocrates
  Hippocrates
  Hippocrates of Cos or Hippokrates of Kos was an ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles , and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine...
  
   (Hippocratic Corpus
  Hippocratic Corpus
  The Hippocratic Corpus , or Hippocratic Collection, is a collection of around 60 early Ancient Greek medical works strongly associated with the physician Hippocrates and his teachings...
  
  ) (5th century BC)

• Joannes Actuarius
  Joannes Actuarius
  Joannes Zacharias Actuarius , son of Zacharias, was a Byzantine physician in Constantinople. He practiced with some degree of credit, as he was honored with the title of Actuarius, a dignity frequently conferred at that court upon physicians.-Biography:Very little is known of the events of his...
  
  

• L. Annaeus Seneca

• Leonidas (physician)
  Leonidas (physician)
  Leonidas, , a Greek physician who was a native of Alexandria, and belonged to the sect of the Episynthetici. As he is quoted by Caelius Aurelianus, and himself quotes Galen, he probably lived in the 2nd and 3rd centuries...
  
   (1st-2nd century AD)

• M. Porcius Cato

• Marcellinus (physician) (2nd century? AD)

• Marcellus of Side
  Marcellus of Side
  Marcellus of Side a native of Side in Pamphylia, was born towards the end of the 1st century, and lived during the reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, 117-161...
  
   (2nd century AD)

• Meges of Sidon
  Meges of Sidon
  Meges an eminent surgeon, born at Sidon in Phoenicia, who practised at Rome with great reputation and success, shortly before the time of Celsus, and therefore probably in the 1st century BC. He wrote some works which are highly praised and several times quoted by Celsus, but of which nothing...
  
   (1st century AD)

• Meletius
  Meletius
  Meletius may mean:*Meletius I of Alexandria, Patriarch*Meletius II of Alexandria, Patriarch*Meletius III of Alexandria, Patriarch*Meletius II, Patriarch, patriarch of Constantinople*Meletius III, Patriarch, patriarch of Constantinople...
  
  

• Menemachus
  Menemachus
  Menemachus, , a Greek physician born at one of the cities named Aphrodisias, who belonged to the Methodic school of medicine, and lived in the 2nd century. He wrote some works which are not now extant, and is probably the physician quoted by Caelius Aurelianus, Galen, and Oribasius...
  
   (1st century AD)

• Mnesitheus of Athens
  Mnesitheus
  Mnesitheus of Athens, was a Greek physician, who probably lived in the 4th century BC, as he is quoted by the comic poet Alexis. He belonged to the Dogmatic school of medicine. He enjoyed a great reputation, and was particularly celebrated for his classification of diseases...
  
   (3rd century BC)

• Mnesitheus of Cyzicus
  Mnesitheus
  Mnesitheus of Athens, was a Greek physician, who probably lived in the 4th century BC, as he is quoted by the comic poet Alexis. He belonged to the Dogmatic school of medicine. He enjoyed a great reputation, and was particularly celebrated for his classification of diseases...
  
  

• Nepualius (Neptunalius, Neptunianus)

• Niger, Sextius
  Sextius Niger
  Sextius Niger was a Roman writer on pharmacology during the reign of Augustus or a little later. He may be identical with the son of the philosopher Quintus Sextius, who continued his philosophical teachings.-Life and work:...
  
  

• Oribasius
  Oribasius
  Oribasius or Oreibasius was a Greek medical writer and the personal physician of the Roman emperor Julian the Apostate. He studied at Alexandria under physician Zeno of Cyprus before joining Julian's retinue. He was involved in Julian's coronation in 361, and remained with the emperor until...
  
   (4th century)

• Ovid
  Ovid
  Publius Ovidius Naso , known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria...
  
   (1st century AD)

• Palladius (physician)
  Palladius (physician)
  Palladius a Greek medical writer, some of whose works are still extant. Nothing is known of the events of his life, but, as he is commonly called Iatrosophistes, he is supposed to have gained that title by having been a professor of medicine at Alexandria. His date is uncertain; he may lived in...
  
  

• Paulus Aegineta (7th century)

• Phasias of Tenedos

• Philagrius of Epirus
  Philagrius of Epirus
  Philagrius of Epirus a Greek medical writer, born in Epirus, lived after Galen and before Oribasius, and therefore probably in the 3rd century. According to the Suda he was a pupil of a physician named Naumachius, and practised his profession chiefly at Thessalonica.Theophilus gives him the title...
  
   (3rd-4th century)

• Philinus of Cos
  Philinus of Cos
  Philinus of Cos was a Greek physician. He was the reputed founder of the Empiric school. He was a pupil of Herophilus, a contemporary of Bacchius, and a predecessor of Serapion. He wrote a work on part of the Hippocratic collection directed against Bacchius, and also one on botany, neither of...
  
   (3rd century BC)

• Philistion of Locri
  Philistion of Locri
  Philistion of Locri was a physician and writer on medicine who lived in the 4th century BC.He was a native of Locri in Italy, but was also referred to as "the Sicilian." He was tutor to the physician Chrysippus of Cnidos, and the astronomer and physician Eudoxus, and therefore must have lived in...
  
   (5th-4th century BC)

• Philo Tarsensis

• Philotimus
  Philotimus
  Philotimus, , , an eminent Greek physician, a pupil of Praxagoras, and a fellow pupil of Herophilus. He was also a contemporary of Erasistratus, and is quoted by Heraclides of Tarentum, and therefore must have lived in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC...
  
  

• Philoxenus (physician)
  Philoxenus (physician)
  Philoxenus , a Greco-Egyptian surgeon, who, according to Celsus, wrote several valuable volumes on surgery. He is no doubt the same person whose medical formulae are frequently quoted by Galen, and who is called by him Claudius Philoxenus. As he is quoted by Asclepiades Pharmacion, he must have...
  
   (3rd century BC)

• Philumenus
  Philumenus
  Philumenus , a Greek physician, mentioned by an anonymous writer as one of the most eminent members of his profession. Nothing is known of the events of his life, and with respect to his date, as the earliest author who quotes him is Oribasius, it can only be said that he must have lived in or...
  
   (3rd century AD)

• Phylotimus

• Pliny the Elder
  Pliny the Elder
  Gaius Plinius Secundus , better known as Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, and natural philosopher, as well as naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and personal friend of the emperor Vespasian...
  
   (1st century AD)

• Plistonicus
  Plistonicus
  Plistonicus , was an ancient Greek physician, a pupil of Praxagoras, who therefore lived in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. He appears to have written a work on anatomy, which is several times mentioned by Galen, who calls him one of the most eminent physicians of his time. He is quoted by Pliny,...
  
  

• Plutarch
  Plutarch
  Plutarch then named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus , c. 46 – 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia...
  
   (2nd century AD)

• Posidonius
  Posidonius
  Posidonius "of Apameia" or "of Rhodes" , was a Greek Stoic philosopher, politician, astronomer, geographer, historian and teacher native to Apamea, Syria. He was acclaimed as the greatest polymath of his age...
  
   (3rd-4th century)

• Praxagoras of Cos (4th century BC)

• Serenus Sammonicus
  Serenus Sammonicus
  Quintus Sammonicus Serenus was a Roman savant, tutor to Geta and Caracalla who became fatally involved in politics, and an author of a didactic medical poem, Liber Medicinalis , probably incomplete in the form in which we have it, as well as many lost works...
  
  

• Rufus of Ephesus
  Rufus of Ephesus
  Rufus of Ephesus was an ancient Greek physician and author who wrote treatises on dietetics, pathology, anatomy, and patient care. He was to some extent a follower of Hippocrates, although he at times criticized or departed from that author's teachings...
  
   (2nd century AD)

• Scribonius Largus
  Scribonius Largus
  Scribonius Largus was the court physician to the Roman emperor Claudius.About 47 AD, at the request of Gaius Julius Callistus, the emperor's freedman, he drew up a list of 271 prescriptions , most of them his own, although he acknowledged his indebtedness to his tutors, to friends and to the...
  
   (1st century AD)

• Serapion
  Serapion
  -Physicians:*Serapion of Alexandria , Greek physician*Yahya ibn Sarafyun , also known as Serapion the Elder or Johannes Serapion, Christian physician who wrote two medical compilations in Syriac...
  
   (3rd century BC)

• Severus (physician) (4th century AD)

• Sextus Empiricus
  Sextus Empiricus
  Sextus Empiricus , was a physician and philosopher, and has been variously reported to have lived in Alexandria, Rome, or Athens. His philosophical work is the most complete surviving account of ancient Greek and Roman skepticism....
  
  

• Soranus of Ephesus (2nd century AD)

• Stephanus Med. (7th century)

• Stephanus, Phil (7th century)

• Themison of Laodicea
  Themison of Laodicea
  Themison of Laodicea, , 1st century BC, was the founder of the Methodic school of medicine, and one of the most eminent physicians of his time....
  
   (1st century BC)

• Theon Gymnasiarcha

• Theophilus Protospatharius
  Theophilus Protospatharius
  Theophilus Protospatharius , the author of several Greek medical works, which are still extant, and of which it is not quite certain whether some do not belong to Philaretus and Philotheus. Every thing connected with his titles, the events of his life, and the time when he lived, is uncertain...
  
  

• Theophrastus
  Theophrastus
  Theophrastus , a Greek native of Eresos in Lesbos, was the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. He came to Athens at a young age, and initially studied in Plato's school. After Plato's death he attached himself to Aristotle. Aristotle bequeathed to Theophrastus his writings, and...
  
  

• Thessalus of Tralles
  Thessalus of Tralles
  Thessalus of Tralles was a famous Roman physician and early adherent to the Methodic school of medicine. He lived in Rome, where he was the court physician of Emperor Nero. It was here that he died and was buried, and his tomb was to be seen on the Via Appia.He was from Tralles in Lydia...
  
   (1st century AD)

• Thrasymachus of Sardis

• Timotheus of Metapontion

• Xenocrates of Aphrodisias
  Xenocrates of Aphrodisias
  Xenocrates a Greek physician of Aphrodisias in Cilicia, who must have lived about the middle of the 1st century, as he was probably a contemporary of Andromachus the Younger. Galen says that he lived in the second generation before himself...
  
   (1st century AD)

• Zopyrus (physician)
  Zopyrus (physician)
  Zopyrus was a surgeon at Alexandria, and the tutor of Apollonius of Citium and Posidonius. He invented an antidote, which he recommended to Mithridates VI of Pontus, and wrote a letter to that king, begging to be allowed to test its efficacy on a criminal. Another somewhat similar composition he...
  
  (1st century AD)