Criton of Heraclea
Criton of
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
- ^ Galen, De Compositione Medicamentorum Secundum Locus, i. 3, vol. xii.
- ^ Martial, Epigrams xi. 60. 6
- ^ Galen, De Compositione Medicamentorum per Genera, ii. 11, vi. 1, vol. xiii.
- ^ Apollonius of Tyana, Epistolae, xvii
- ^ Bennett 2001, p. 92.
- ^ Giurescu, Constantin C. (1972). "The Making of the Romanian People and Language".
- ^ Athenaeus, xii. p. 516
- ^ Escohotado 2010, p. 310.
References
- Bennett, Julian (2001). "VIII Dacicus". Trajan: Optimus Princeps (2nd ed.). ISBN 0-253-21435-1. Retrieved 2010-12-08.
- Escohotado, Antonio (2010). "The Pagan Era". The General History of Drugs. Valparaiso, Chile: Graffiti Militante Press. ISBN 978-0-9820787-3-0. Retrieved 2010-12-08.
- On melancholy by Rufus of Ephesus, Peter E. Pormann
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Criton (Κρίτων)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. p. 895.