Aretaeus of cappadocia biography channel

(fl. ca. a.d. 50)

medicine.

Aretaeus is known for his text on the causes, symptoms, and treatment of acute and chronic diseases. The dates of this physician, who was rarely cited in antiquity, have long been a matter of dispute, but it should now be clear that Aretaeus belongs to the middle of the first century and that he was a contemporary of the famous pharmacologist Pedanius Dioscorides, who cites him once.

He presumably was a native or at least a citizen of Cappadocia, a Roman province in Asia Minor, and most likely lived around first century CE.

He presumably was a native or at least a citizen of Cappadocia, a Roman province in Asia Minor, and most likely lived around first century CE.

The extant works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian.

The extant works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian: Adams, Francis, Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive.

A renowned physician and philosopher from ancient times, Aretaeus of Cappadocia significantly contributed to the foundations of modern medicine.

Nothing is known of his biography, except for constant references to his probable place of birth, Cappadocia.

Further, since Aretaeus probably knew Andromachos, Nero’s personal physician (to whom Dioscorides dedicated his work), we may conclude that at some time he had resided in Rome. Nothing more is known about his life.

Aretaeus belonged to the so-called Pneumatic school of physicians, which had been founded in the first century b.c.

by Athenaeus of Attalia, who had studied under the Stoic Posidonius. Since Aretaeus is the only one of the Pneumatic school whose work has come down to us intact, he is a valuable source in several respects: (1) One can