Asclepiades is the name of:
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epithet
An epithet (, ), also byname, is a descriptive term (word or phrase) known for accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, di ...
for the children of Asclepius;
Hygieia,
Iaso,
Aceso,
Aegle,
Panacea
In Greek mythology, Panacea (Greek ''Πανάκεια'', Panakeia), a goddess of universal remedy, was the daughter of Asclepius and Epione. Panacea and her four sisters each performed a facet of Apollo's art:
* Panacea (the goddess of univers ...
, Meditrina,
Machaon, Podaleirios, Telesphoros, Aratus
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Asclepiades of Tragilus Asclepiades of Tragilus ( el, Ἀσκληπιάδης) was an ancient Greek literary critic and mythographer of the 4th century BC, and a student of the Athenian orator Isocrates. His works do not survive, but he is known to have written the ''Tra ...
(4th century BC), critic and mythographer, author of ''Tragoidoumena'', cited in the ''Bibliotheca''
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Asclepiades of Phlius (
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4th–3rd century BC), philosopher in the Eretrian school of Philosophy
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Asclepiades of Samos Asclepiades of Samos (Sicelidas) ( el, Ἀσκληπιάδης ὁ Σάμιος; born c. 320 BC) was an ancient Greek epigrammatist and lyric poet who flourished around 270 BC. He was a friend of Hedylus and possibly of Theocritus. He may have b ...
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3rd century BC), lyric poet
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Asclepiades of Myrlea (
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''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...
2nd-1st century BC), Greek historian and grammar in Rome and Spain
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Asclepiades of Bithynia
Asclepiades ( el, Ἀσκληπιάδης; c. 129/124 BC – 40 BC), sometimes called Asclepiades of Bithynia or Asclepiades of Prusa, was a Greek physician born at Prusias-on-Sea in Bithynia in Anatolia and who flourished at Rome, where he pra ...
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''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...
c. 120–c. 40 BC), philosopher and physician from Prusa, Bithynia
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Caius Calpurnius Asclepiades of Prusa
Caius Calpurnius Asclepiades of Prusa (aka "Phylophysicus", one of several men referred to as Asclepiades of Prusa) was an eminent physician who flourished in the second century during the reign of Hadrian. Born in Prusia, Bithynia
Bithynia ( ...
, b. 88 CE, second century physician
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Asclepiades Pharmacion (
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''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...
1st–2nd century), Greek physician
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Asclepiades of Antioch (died 217), Patriarch of Antioch, Christian saint and martyr
* Asclepiades (
fl.
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...
c. 250), Christian saint and martyr (see
Pionius)
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Asclepiades the Cynic (
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4th century), Cynic philosopher
See also
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Asclepiad (disambiguation)
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Asclepius (disambiguation)
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