Criton of Heraclea

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Criton of

procurator of Roman Emperor Trajan (98–117) in the campaign in Dacia.[1] He is perhaps the Criton mentioned in Martial's Epigrams.[2]

He wrote a work on Cosmetics in four books, which were very popular in

Aëtius and Paul of Aegina, and may perhaps be the person to whom one of the letters of Apollonius of Tyana is addressed.[4]

Criton also has a historical work, Getica,

Daco-Getae. Getica was at the basis of Trajan's own work, Dacica (or De bello dacico), about his Dacian Wars, which is also lost. He is perhaps the author of a work on Cookery, mentioned by Athenaeus.[7]
None of his works seem to be extant, except a few fragments preserved by other authors.

As Trajan's medic, Criton created a mixture consumed daily by the emperor.[8]

Titles of works

  • Cosmetics, a medical treatise
  • Simple Medicines
  • Getica, a work on the history of the Getae

Notes

  1. ^ Galen, De Compositione Medicamentorum Secundum Locus, i. 3, vol. xii.
  2. ^ Martial, Epigrams xi. 60. 6
  3. ^ Galen, De Compositione Medicamentorum per Genera, ii. 11, vi. 1, vol. xiii.
  4. ^ Apollonius of Tyana, Epistolae, xvii
  5. ^ Bennett 2001, p. 92.
  6. ^ Giurescu, Constantin C. (1972). "The Making of the Romanian People and Language".
  7. ^ Athenaeus, xii. p. 516
  8. ^ Escohotado 2010, p. 310.

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