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Iatrosophist (Ancient Gr****: ἰατροσοφιστής, Latin: iatrosophista) is an
ancient title designating a
teacher of medicine. It
comes from
Ancient Gr****: ἰᾱτρός...
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Gessius of
Petra (Gr****: Γέσιος, Gesios) was an Arab physician,
iatrosophist and
pagan philosopher active in
Alexandria in the late 5th and
early 6th century...
- "dinner sophist" (as in the
title of Athenaeus's Deipnosophistae), and
iatrosophist, a type of
physician in the
later Roman period. In the
second half of...
- 'doctor' and
Ancient Gr****: σοϕία 'knowledge', and gave rise to the term
Iatrosophist (Ancient Gr****: ἰατροσοφιστής, Latin: iatrosophista),
denoting a professor...
- (Ancient Gr****: Αδαμάντιος) was an
ancient physician,
bearing the
title of
iatrosophist (ιατρικων λόγων σοφιστής; broadly, "professor of medicine").
Little is...
- unknown. It may have been Petra, also the
birthplace of the 5th-century
iatrosophist Gessius of
Petra and a
place ****ociated with Diophantus' contemporary...
