Asclepiades
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Asclepiades may refer to:
- Asclepiades of PhliusAsclepiades of PhliusAsclepiades of Phlius was a Greek philosopher in the Eretrian school of philosophy. He was the friend of Menedemus of Eretria, and they both went to live in Megara and studied under Stilpo, before sailing to Elis to join Phaedo's school. His friendship with Menedemus was said to have been hardly...
, (4th–3rd century BC) philosopher in the Eretrian school of Philosophy - Asclepiades of SamosAsclepiades of SamosAsclepiades of Samos was an ancient Greek epigrammatist and lyric poet. He was a friend of Theocritus, who flourished about 270 BC. He was the earliest and most important of the convivial and erotic epigrammists. Only a few of his compositions are actual inscriptions. Others sing the praises of...
, (3rd century BC) lyric poet - Asclepiades of BithyniaAsclepiades of BithyniaAsclepiades was a Greek physician born at Prusa in Bithynia in Asia Minor and flourished at Rome, where he established Greek medicine near the end of the 2nd century BCE. He attempted to build a new theory of disease, based on the flow of atoms through pores in the body...
, (c. 125–40 BC) philosopher and physician - Asclepiades PharmacionAsclepiades PharmacionAsclepiades Pharmacion or Asclepiades Junior , a Greek physician who must have lived at the end of the 1st or the beginning of the 2nd century, as he quotes Andromachus, Dioscorides, and Scribonius Largus, and is himself quoted by Galen...
, (1st-2nd century) Greek physician - Asclepiades of AntiochAsclepiades of AntiochAsclepiades of Antioch was Patriarch of Antioch and martyr. He succeeded Serapion as Patriarch of Antioch, in 211. Given the title of martyr, due to the trials he endured, during Roman persecution.-References:...
, (d.217) Patriarch of Antioch, Christian saint and martyr - Asclepiades, (c. 250) Christian saint and martyr (see PioniusPioniusSaint Pionius is a Christian saint. He was martyred at Smyrna during the reign of Decius.Pionius, with Sabina, Asclepiades, Macedonia, and Limnos, was arrested on 23 February, the anniversary of St. Polycarp's martyrdom.They had passed the previous night in prayer and fasting...
) - Asclepiades the CynicAsclepiades the CynicAsclepiades was a Cynic philosopher. He is mentioned by the emperor Julian whom Asclepiades visited at Antioch in 362. Ammianus Marcellinus describes how Asclepiades accidentally destroyed the temple of Apollo at Daphne in Antioch, when some candles he lit set light to the woodwork, burning down...
, (4th century) Cynic philosopher