Heraclides (physician)
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Heracleides (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλείδης) was a physician of ancient Greece who was said to have been the sixteenth in descent from Aesculapius, the son of Hippocrates I, who lived probably in the fifth century BC. He married a woman named Phaeniarete, or, according to others, Praxithea, by whom he had two sons, Sosander and the renowned ancient physician Hippocrates.
Many historical researchers attribute the authorship of various works to Heracleides of Kos, such as the "Hippocratic Collection," "Prognostics," and parts of the "Aphorisms," among others.
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- ^ John Tzetzes, Chiliades vii. Hist. 155, in Johann Albert Fabricius Bibliotheca Graeca vol. xii. p. 680, ed. vet.
- ^ Poeti Epist. ad Artax., and Soranus of Ephesus Vita Hippocr. in Hippocr. Opera, vol. iii. p. 770, 850
- ^ Suda s. v. Ἱπποκάτης
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s. v. Κῶς
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bunbury, Edward Herbert (1870). "Heracleides". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. p. 391.