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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.
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.
Archagathus (Ancient Greek: Ἀρχάγαθος; fl. 4th century BC, died 307 BC) was a Syracusan Greek Prince of Magna Graecia. Archagathus was a son of Agathocles of Syracuse and had a brother named Heracleides. [1] His father was the Greek tyrant of Syracuse who later became King of Sicily.
In 219 BCE a surgeon named Archagathus traveled from the Peloponnesus to Rome. He became a citizen and purchased a taberna near a crossroads. This became the first officina medica. Previously, the pater familias was responsible for the medical art in early Rome. Physicians in ancient Rome would take the Hippocratic Oath.
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
Evidence from 1st-4th century Roman skeletons from a rural community in the province of Macedonia found extremely high rates of periodontitis and calculus, although low rates of caries. [40] Similar studies on other rural Roman communities have found high rates of periodontitis , caries, periapical cavities, calculus, and tooth decay. [ 41 ]
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.
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