Alexander Philalethes

Alexander Philalethes

Alexander Philalethes (Gr. polytonic|Ἀλέξανδρος Φιλαλήθης) was an ancient Greek physician,cite encyclopedia | last = Greenhill | first = William Alexander | authorlink = | title = Alexander Philalethes | editor = William Smith | encyclopedia = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 125 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | location = Boston | year = 1867 | url = http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;idno=acl3129.0001.001;q1=demosthenes;size=l;frm=frameset;seq=140] whom Priscian called "Alexander Amator Veri" (Alexander Truth-Lover),Priscian, iv. p. 102, d.] and who was probably the same person quoted by Caelius Aurelianus under the name of "Alexander Laodicensis". [Caelius Aurelianus, "On Acute and Chronic Diseases" ii. i, p. 74] He lived probably towards the end of the 1st century, as Strabo speaks of him as a contemporary.Strabo, xii. p. 580] He was a pupil of Asclepiades, succeeded an otherwise unknown Zeuxis as head of a celebrated Herophilean school of medicine, established in Phrygia between Laodicea and Carura, and was tutor to Aristoxenus and Demosthenes Philalethes. [Galen, "De Differ. Puls." iv. 4, 10, vol. viii. pp. 727, 746] He is several times mentioned by Galen and also by Soranus, [Soranus, "De Arte Obstetr." c. 93, p. 210] and appears to have written some medical works, which are no longer extant.

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