Diocles of Carystus (in Greek Διοκλης o Καρυστιος; lived 4th century BC), a very celebrated Greek physician, was born at Carystus in Euboea, lived not long after the time of Hippocrates, to whom Pliny says he was next in age and fame.¹ (5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - other centuries) (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD) // Events Invasion of the Celts into Ireland Battle of the Allia and subsequent Gaulish sack of Rome 383 BCE Second Buddhist Councel at Vesali. ... Carystus was a city-state that refused to join the Delian League. ... Euboea or Negropont (Modern Greek: Εύβοια Evia, Ancient Greek Εúβοια Eúboia; see also List of traditional Greek place names), is the largest island of the Greek archipelago. ... Hippocrates: a conventionalized image in a Roman portrait bust (19th century engraving) Hippocrates of Cos (c. ... Pliny the Elder: an imaginative 19c portrait. ...

ot much is known of his life, other that he lived and worked in Athens, where he wrote the first medical treatise in Attic and not in Ionic as was abitual in Greek medical writings. His most important findings were in practical medicine, but it is important to remember that he also wrote the first systematic text-book on animal anatomy. Athens (Greek: Αθήνα, Athína; IPA ) is the capital of Greece, and of the Attica prefecture of Greece. ... Attic Greek is the ancient dialect of the Greek language that was spoken in Attica, which includes Athens. ... Ionic Greek was a sub-dialect of the Attic-Ionic dialectal group of Ancient Greek (see Greek dialects). ... All human societies have medical beliefs that provide explanations for, and responses to, birth, death, and disease. ...

He belonged to the medical sect of the Dogmatici², and wrote several medical works, of which only the titles and some fragments remain, preserved by Galen, Caelius Aurelianus, Oribasius, and other ancient writers. The longest of these is a letter to king Antigonus, entitled A Letter on Preserving Health (Επιστολη Προφυλακτικη), which is inserted by Paul of Aegina at the end of the first book of his medical work, and which, if genuine, was probably addressed to Antigonus II Gonatas, king of Macedonia, who died 239 BC, at the age of eighty, after a reign of forty-four years.³ It resembles in its subject matter several other similar letters ascribed to Hippocrates, and treats of the diet fitted for the different seasons of the year. Some persons attributed in the past to Diocles the honour of first explaining the difference between the veins and arteries; but this does not seem to be correct, nor is any great discovery con­nected with his name. Claudius Galenus of Pergamum (131-201 AD), better known as Galen, was an ancient Greek physician. ... Caelius Aurelianus was a Roman physician and writer on medical topics. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Paulus Aegineta. ... Coin of Antigonus II Gonatas Antigonus II Gonatas (c. ... Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC Decades: 280s BC 270s BC 260s BC 250s BC 240s BC - 230s BC - 220s BC 210s BC 200s BC 190s BC 180s BC Years: 244 BC 243 BC 242 BC 241 BC 240 BC - 239 BC - 238 BC 237 BC...

His fragments have been recently collected and translated in English by Philip van der Eijk, with a commentary in a separate volume.

References

• Van der Eijk, Philip; Diocles of Carystus, Leiden, (2000)
• Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Diocles Carystius", Boston, (1867)

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