Asclepiades

Asclepiades may refer to a number of different people:

Mythology

• An epithet for the children of Asclepius, the god of healing; Hygieia, Iaso, Aceso, Aegle, Panacea, Meditrina, Machaon, Podaleirios, Telesphoros, Aratus

Physicians

Ancient texts provide many long lists of physicians with the name "Asclepiades", most of whom are otherwise completely unknown. There are a scant few about whom we know a little:

• Asclepiades Philophysicus, physician who lived in or before the 2nd century BCE
• Asclepiades Titiensis, physician who lived in or before the 2nd century BCE
• Asclepiades of Bithynia (fl. c. 120–c. 40 BC), philosopher and physician from Prusa, Bithynia
• Caius Calpurnius Asclepiades of Prusa, b. 88 CE, second century physician
• Asclepiades Pharmacion (fl. 1st–2nd century), Greek physician
• Lucius Scribonius Asclepiades, an otherwise unknown person whom some writers believed to be the same person as Scribonius Largus

Writers

• Asclepiades of Alexandria, grammarian from around the 5th century BC
• Asclepiades of Anazarba, historian of uncertain age, from Anazarbus
• Asclepiades of Tragilus (4th century BC), critic and mythographer, author of Tragoidoumena, cited in the Bibliotheca
• Asclepiades of Phlius (fl. 4th–3rd century BC), philosopher in the Eretrian school of Philosophy
• Asclepiades of Samos (fl. 3rd century BC), lyric poet
• Asclepiades of Cyprus, writer of around the 3rd century BC
• Asclepiades Mendes, ancient Egyptian writer on religion
• Asclepiades of Myrlea (fl. 2nd-1st century BC), Greek historian and grammarian in Rome and Spain
• Asclepiades the Cynic (fl. 4th century), Cynic philosopher

Christianity

• Asclepiades of Antioch (died 217), Patriarch of Antioch, Christian saint and martyr
• Asclepiades (fl. c. 250), Christian saint and martyr (see Pionius)
• Asclepiades of Tralles, 5th century Christian bishop

See also

• Asclepiad (disambiguation)
• Asclepius (disambiguation)