Zopyrus ( Greek: Ζώπυρος; 1st-century BCE) was a surgeon at Alexandria, and the tutor of Apollonius of Citium and Posidonius. [1] He invented an antidote, which he recommended to Mithridates VI of Pontus, and wrote a letter to that king, begging to be allowed to test its efficacy on a criminal. [2] Another somewhat similar composition he prepared for one of the Ptolemies. [3] Some of his medical formulae are quoted and mentioned by various ancient authors, viz. Caelius Aurelianus, [4] Oribasius, [5] Aetius, [6] Paul of Aegina, [7] Marcellus Empiricus, [8] and Nicolaus Myrepsus. [9] Pliny [10] and Dioscorides [11] mention that a certain plant was called zopyron, perhaps after his name. Nicarchus satirizes a physician named Zopyrus in one of his epigrams. [12] Not to be confused with Zopyron.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Zopyrus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
Zopyrus ( Greek: Ζώπυρος; 1st-century BCE) was a surgeon at Alexandria, and the tutor of Apollonius of Citium and Posidonius. [1] He invented an antidote, which he recommended to Mithridates VI of Pontus, and wrote a letter to that king, begging to be allowed to test its efficacy on a criminal. [2] Another somewhat similar composition he prepared for one of the Ptolemies. [3] Some of his medical formulae are quoted and mentioned by various ancient authors, viz. Caelius Aurelianus, [4] Oribasius, [5] Aetius, [6] Paul of Aegina, [7] Marcellus Empiricus, [8] and Nicolaus Myrepsus. [9] Pliny [10] and Dioscorides [11] mention that a certain plant was called zopyron, perhaps after his name. Nicarchus satirizes a physician named Zopyrus in one of his epigrams. [12] Not to be confused with Zopyron.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Zopyrus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.