Asclepiad (title)
Asclepiad (
The Asclepiads may have originally been members of a family claiming descent from the god of healing Asclepius, with the name only later being adopted by all doctors; or they may always have been an association of medical men venerating the god as their founder.[1]
Some hold that the Asclepiads were priests of Asclepion.[2] The Asclepiadae could also have been a guild in honour of Asclepius, the Greek god of healing, separate from the healing temples and closely related to Hippocratic tradition.[3] Plato gives Hippocrates this title in his Protagoras, referring to him as “Hippocrates of Kos, the Asclepiad”.[3] It may also have been used to refer to a group of people who claimed to be descended from Asclepius.[4]
Asclepiades was the name of several
See also
- Asclepiades of Bithynia, (ca. 125–40 BC) philosopher and physician
- Asclepiades Pharmacion, (1st-2nd century) Greek physician
- Hippocrates, who was raised as an Asclepiad.
References
- ISBN 0773496637, p. 204
- ^ Rutkow 1993, p. 21
- ^ a b Jowett 1927, p. 43
- ^ Jones 1868, p. 39
Bibliography
- Jacques Jouanna, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen: Selected Papers, Brill Studies in Ancient Medicine 40, 2012, ISBN 9004208593, passim
- Jones, W. H. S. (1868), Hippocrates Collected Works I, Cambridge Harvard University Press.
- Jowett, B. (1927). "Protagoras". In William Chase Greene (ed.). The Dialogues of Plato. New York: Liveright Publishing Corp. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
- Rutkow, Ira M. (1993), Surgery: An Illustrated History, ISBN 0-8016-6078-5