Aristarchus (Ancient Greek: 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]
References
- ^ Polyaenus, Stratagems 8.50
- ^ Galen, De Compos. Medicam. ec. Loc. 5.11, vol. xiii. p. 824
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Greenhill, William Alexander (1870). "Aristarchus (physician) (1), (2)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 291.
