Antonius Musa

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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

  1. ↑ Pliny the Elder , Naturalis historia 29.6 .
  2. ^ Suetonius , Augustus 59 and 81 .
  3. ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 25.77 .
personal data
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