Asclepiades


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Asclepiades is the name of:

  • An epithet for the children of Asclepius; Hygieia, Iaso, Aceso, Aegle, Panacea, Meditrina, Machaon, Podaleirios, Telesphoros, Aratus
  • Asclepiades of Tragilus (4th century BC), critic and mythographer, author of Tragoidoumena, cited in the Bibliotheca
  • Asclepiades of Phlius (fl. 4th–3rd century BC), philosopher in the Eretrian school of Philosophy
  • Asclepiades of Samos (fl. 3rd century BC), lyric poet
  • Asclepiades of Bithynia (fl. c. 120–c. 40 BC), philosopher and physician from Prusa, Bithynia
  • Asclepiades Pharmacion (fl. 1st–2nd century), Greek physician
  • Asclepiades of Antioch (died 217), Patriarch of Antioch, Christian saint and martyr
  • Asclepiades (fl. c. 250), Christian saint and martyr (see Pionius)
  • Asclepiades the Cynic (fl. 4th century), Cynic philosopher

See also

  • Asclepiad (disambiguation)
  • Asclepius (disambiguation)


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