Apsyrtos of Clazomenae (end of 1st century – middle of 3rd century) was a veterinarian in the Roman army and wrote in Greek a treatise on horse medicine. His book became one of the main sources for ancient veterinary medicine: the Greek hippiatric authors Theomnestos (ca. 313) and Hierocles (5th c.?) quoted Apsyrtos and, in…
Cephalopods (squid, cuttlefish, and octopus), valued in the Mediterranean diet, had already aroused the interest of Greek physicians from the 5th and 4th century BCE. Authors such as Hippocrates (5th-4th century BCE), Mnesitheus of Athens (4th century BCE), and later Pedanius Dioscorides (1st century AD) and Galen of Pergamon (2nd-3rd century AD) described their dietary…
Metrodora was a writer who authored a text on gynaecological topics. Her work, known since the 19th century, was first published in 1945 by Aristotelis Kouzis under the title: “From Metrodora, On the Female Ailments of the Womb” (Ἐκ τῶν Μητροδώρας, Περὶ τῶν γυναικείων παθῶν τῆς μήτρας). This text is fragmentary, as indicated by its…