What is Xenocrates of Aphrodisias?
'''Xenocrates''' ({{lang-el|Ξενοκράτης}}) was an ancient [[Greek people|Greek]] [[physician]] from Aphrodisias in Cilicia.<ref>Galen, ''De Simplic. Medicam. Temper, ac Facult.'', vi. praef. vol. xi. p. 793.</ref> He lived around the middle of the 1st century and was maybe the contemporary of Andromachus the Younger.<ref>Galen, ''De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc.'', iii. 1, vol. xii. p. 627; ''De Ther. ad Pis.'', c. 12. vol. xiv. p. 260.</ref> [[Galen]] says that Xenocrates lived before himself.<ref name=Galen>Galen, ''De Simplic. Medicam. Temper. ac Facult.'', x. 1. vol. xii. p. 248.</ref> He was blamed by Galen for using disgusting cures like human [[brain]]s, [[flesh]], [[liver]], [[ash]] from [[bone]], [[urine]], [[excrement]], etc.<ref name=Galen/> One of Xenocrates' works on [[pharmacy]] was titled ''On Useful Things from Living Beings'' ({{lang-el|Περὶ τῆς ἀπὸ τῶν Ζώων Ὠφελείας}}).<ref>Galen, ''De Simplic. Medicam. Temper, ac Facult.'', x. 2. § 4, vol. xii. p. 261.</ref> Xenocrates is quoted by Galen, Clement of Alexandria,<ref>Clement of Alexandria, ''Stromata'', i. p. 717.</ref> Artemidorus,<ref>Artemidorus, ''Oneirocr.'', iv. 24.</ref> Pliny the Elder,<ref>Pliny, ''H. N.'', xx. 82.</ref> Oribasius,<ref>Oribasius, ''Coll. Medic.'', ii 58, p. 225.</ref> Aëtius Amidenus,<ref>Aëtius, i. 2. 84, iv. 2. 35, 3. 14, pp. 75, 706, 760.</ref> and Alexander of Tralles.<ref>Alexander of Tralles, i. 15, xii. 8, pp. 156, 344.</ref> There is also a summary of Xenocrates' work on sea creatures ({{lang-el|Περὶ τῆς ἀπὸ τῶν Ἐνύδρων Τροφῆς}}) preserved by Oribasius.<ref>See Oribasius' ''Coll. Medic.''</ref> ==References== ===Citations=== {{reflist|2}} ===Sources=== *{{cite book|editor-last=Smith|editor-first=William|title=Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology|year=1870|location=Boston|publisher=Little, Brown and Company}} [[Category:Ancient Greeks]]