Mantias

Mantias, (Greek: Μαντίας; 3rd century BC) a Greek physician who was the tutor of Heraclides of Tarentum,^[1] and one of the followers of Herophilus;^[2] and who lived therefore most probably in the 3rd century BC. Galen says that he was no ordinary physician,^[3] and that he was the first who wrote a regular work on pharmacy.^[4] His works on the subject, which are several times quoted by Galen, are lost, but the titles of some of them have been preserved.^[5]

Notes

1. ^ Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen., ii. 15, vol. xiii. p. 462, 502
2. ^ Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen., vi. 9, vol. xii. p. 989
3. ^ Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, ii. 1, vol. xii. p. 534
4. ^ Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen., vii. 91, vol. xiii. p. 462
5. ^ Galen, De Simplic. Medicam. Temper. ac Facult., vi. praef. vol. xi. p. 795; Comment in Hippocr. De Offic. Med. praef. and i. 5, vol. xviii. pt. ii. pp. 629, 666; De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen., iv. 14, vol. xiii. p. 751

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).