Adamantios (Medic)
Adamantios was a Jewish doctor from Alexandria who worked at the beginning of the 5th century.
Adamantios was probably expelled from Alexandria in 412 because of his Judaism. He converted to Christianity in Constantinople . Then he went back to Alexandria. Oreibasios handed down some recipes that are ascribed to Adamantios. A treatise on the winds attributed to him and a paraphrase of the physiognomics of the Polemon of Laodikeia do not come from him, but from a sophist of the same name who lived in the first half of the fourth century.
literature
- Alexios G. Savvides, Benjamin Hendrickx (Eds.): Encyclopaedic Prosopographical Lexicon of Byzantine History and Civilization . Vol. 1: Aaron - Azarethes . Brepols Publishers, Turnhout 2007, ISBN 978-2-503-52303-3 , pp. 51-52.
- Elżbieta Szabat: Adamantios. In: Paweł Janiszewski, Krystyna Stebnicka, Elżbieta Szabat: Prosopography of Greek Rhetors and Sophists of the Roman Empire. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-871340-1 , p. 406.
- Max Wellmann : Adamantios 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 343.
Remarks
- ↑ Simone Follet: Adamantios . In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques . Vol. 1, Paris 1989, pp. 51-53.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adamantios |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jewish doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 412 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th century |