Antonius Musa
Antonius Musa (Greek: Άντώνιος Μουσᾶς ) was a Greek doctor in the 2nd half of the 1st century BC. And personal physician to the Roman emperor Augustus . According to Cassius Dio , he was a freedman .
Like his brother Euphorbos, Musa was a student at the beginning of the 1st century BC. Asclepiades of Bithynia, a physician who worked in Rome . He was able to defend Augustus, who was ailing throughout his life, in 23 BC. Chr. With a cold water treatment of a serious illness and was honored with a statue that Augustus had set up next to that of the healing god Asclepius . He was also active in the field of pharmacology ; a writing about the "vettonic plant" ( betony ), De herba vettonica , has been handed down under his name, but probably dates from late antiquity .
Musa's brother Euphorbus is attested as the personal physician of the Mauritanian king Juba II .
Text output
- Florianus Caldani (Ed.): Antonii Musae, qui Augusti Caesaris Medicus fuit, fragmenta, quae extant. Remondini, Bassano 1800 ( digitized version ).
- Ernst Howald , Henry E. Sigerist (Ed.): Antonii Musae De herba vettonica liber. Pseudoapulei herbarius. Anonymi de taxone liber. Sexti Placiti liber medicinae ex animalibus etc. Teubner, Leipzig / Berlin 1927 (= Corpus medicorum latinorum. Volume 4).
literature
- François Kirbihler: Musa (Antonius). In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Volume 7, CNRS Éditions, Paris 2018, ISBN 978-2-271-09024-9 , p. 618 f.
- Vivian Nutton: Antonius [II 19]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01471-1 .
- Francesco JM Roberg: Antonius Musa. In: Werner E. Gerabek u. a. (Ed.): Encyclopedia of medical history. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , pp. 73 f.
Remarks
- ↑ Pliny the Elder , Naturalis historia 29.6 .
- ^ Suetonius , Augustus 59 and 81 .
- ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 25.77 .
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SURNAME | Antonius Musa |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Musa, Antonius |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Doctor of the Roman Emperor Augustus |
DATE OF BIRTH | before 23 BC Chr. |
DATE OF DEATH | 1st century BC BC or 1st century |