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  2. Archagathus (son of Lysanias) - Wikipedia

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    Archagathus (Ancient Greek: Ἀρχάγαθος), a Peloponnesian, the son of Lysanias, who settled at Rome as a practitioner of medicine around 219 BCE, and, according to Lucius Cassius Hemina, [1] was the first person who made it a distinct profession in that city.

  3. Archagathus - Wikipedia

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    Archagathus of Libya (flourished 4th century BC and 3rd century BC), a Syracusan Greek Prince and a posthumous paternal half-brother to the first named Archagathus. He was the third son of Agathocles of Syracuse from his third wife Theoxena of Syracuse; Archagathus (son of Lysanias), a physician who lived in the 2nd century BC

  4. Dentistry in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    Dentistry developed during the early parts of Roman history, which may be due to the arrival of a Greek doctor named Archagathus. Ancient Roman oral surgical tools included the curettes, osteotomes, cauteries, scalpels, bone forceps, [1] and bone levers. [2] The ancient Romans invented the usage of narcotics during dental surgery.

  5. Archagathus (son of Agathocles of Syracuse) - Wikipedia

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    Archagathus narrowly escaped being put to death in a tumult of soldiers, an event precipitated by him having murdered a man named Lyciscus, who reproached him in committing incest with his step-mother Alcia, [4] the mother of his paternal half-sister, Lanassa. When his father was summoned from Carthage to return to state affairs in Sicily ...

  6. Archagathus (grandson of Agathocles of Syracuse) - Wikipedia

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    Archagathus (Ancient Greek: Ἀρχάγαθος, fl. 4th century BC) was a Syracusan Greek Prince of Magna Graecia. He was the son of Archagathus by a wife whose name is unknown, being a paternal grandson of the Greek tyrant (and later "king" of Sicily) Agathocles of Syracuse from his first wife.

  7. List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field

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    The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field.Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field; they may also be seen as "a" rather than "the" father or mother of the field.

  8. Agathocles of Syracuse - Wikipedia

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    Agathocles was a son of Carcinus, who came from Rhegium.Carcinus was expelled from his hometown, so he migrated to Thermae Himeraeae and married a local citizen woman. . Thermae, which was located on the north coast of Sicily, belonged to the western part of the island, which was under Carthaginian co

  9. Archagathus of Libya - Wikipedia

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    According to surviving evidence, Archagathus was a person of high standing [26] who appeared to be a totally unknown private person [27] and was loyal to his family, in particular to his uncle Magas. [28] We also learn from surviving evidence that Archagathus had a wife, a noblewoman of very high status called Stratonice.