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Apollophanes of Seleucia

Apollophanes of Seleucia

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Apollophanes (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλοφάνης) was a native of Seleucia, and physician to Antiochus the Great, king of Syria, from 223 to 187 BCE, with whom, as appears from Polybius, he possessed considerable influence.[1]

Physician Richard Mead, in his Dissert. de Nummis quibusdam a Smyrnaeis in Medicorum Honorem percussis (Lond. 1724, 4to.), thinks that two bronze coins, struck in honor of a person named Apollophanes, refer to the physician of this name; but this is now generally considered to be a mistake.[2] A physician of the same name is mentioned by several ancient medical writers.[3][4]

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  1. [1]
    Polybius, The Histories 5.56, 58
  2. [2]
    William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities s. v. Medicus
  3. [3]
    Johann Albert Fabricius, Bibliotheca Graeca vol. xiii. p. 76, ed. vet.
  4. [4]
    C. G. Kühn, Additam. ad Elenchum Medicorum Veterum a Jo. A. Fabricio, &c, exhibitum, Lips. 4to., 1826. Fascic. iii. p. 8

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Greenhill, William Alexander (1870). "Apollophanes". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 246.

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