De curatione diuturnorum morborum libri duo
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Aretaeus of Cappadocia
Aretaeus of Cappadocia
c. 80 CE–c. 150 CE · Alexandria
Aretaeus was a Greek physician, probably active in the 1st or 2nd century CE, associated with the medical traditions of his day and writing in the old Ionic dialect. He is best remembered for vivid clinical descriptions of diseases such as diabetes, epilepsy, tetanus, and pneumonia in his treatise on the causes, symptoms, and treatment of acute and chronic illnesses. His exact dates are uncertain, but he is regarded as one of the most observant medical writers of antiquity after Hippocrates.
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About Alexandria
Alexandria is the main Mediterranean port of northern Egypt and the country's second city. Founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE, it became the capital of the Ptolemies, whose Museum and Great Library made it the leading centre of Hellenistic learning. It also held one of the largest Jewish communities of antiquity, where the Greek Bible translation known as the Septuagint was produced and Philo wrote. Church tradition traces its patriarchate to Mark the Evangelist, and its catechetical school was led by Clement and Origen. Arab forces under Amr ibn al-As took the city in 641, and it remained a commercial and scholarly hub of the Islamic world; the Sufi master Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari was born there.
In Alexandria at the same time
Plutarch, Dionysius Periegetes, Appian of Alexandria, Claudius Ptolemaeus, Harpocration, Achilles Tatius
Across the traditions, in Alexandria at the same time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Aretaeus of Cappadocia’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
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In the same tradition
Plutarch, Dionysius Periegetes, Appian of Alexandria, Claudius Ptolemaeus, Harpocration, Achilles Tatius, Apollonius Dyscolus, Vettius Valens
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Aretaeus of Cappadocia’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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De causis et signis diuturnorum morborum libri duo
Alexandria
De curatione acutorum morborum libri duo
Alexandria
De causis et signis acutorum morborum libri duo
Alexandria