Philosophy:Acumenus
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Short description: 5th-century BC Greek physician
Acumenus (Ancient Greek:) was a physician of Athens who lived in the 5th century BC. He was mentioned as the friend and companion of Socrates.[1] He was the father of Eryximachus, who was also a physician, and who is introduced as one of the speakers in Plato's Symposium.[2] He is also mentioned in the collection of letters first published by Leo Allatius in 1637 (Epist. Socralis et Socraticorum), and again by Orellius in 1815.[3]
Both Acumenus and Eryximachus were implicated in accusations of sacrilege in 415. After being named by the slave Lydus as having profaned the Eleusinian Mysteries, Acumenus fled Athens.[4]
References
- ↑ Plato, Phaedrus init.
- Xen. Memor. iii. 13. § 2 - ↑ Plato, Protagoras p. 315, c.
- Plato, Symposium p. 176, c - ↑ Greenhill, William Alexander (1867), "Acumenus", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, MA, pp. 17, http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0026.html
- ↑ Nails, Debra (2002). The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics. Hackett Publishing. p. 2. ISBN 978-0872205642. https://books.google.com/books?id=cspgDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA2.
Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed (1870). "Acumenus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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