List of ancient European doctors

This is an alphabetical list of writers from Ancient Greece and Rome who were doctors, or have left us material that contributes to our knowledge of ancient medicine. In some cases their names look familiar but are not the same as their famous homonyms (thus earning them an epithet).


 * A. Cornelius Celsus (1st CE)


 * Adamantius Judaeus (doctor) (4th CE)


 * Aegimius of Elis


 * Aëtius Amidenus (6th CE)


 * Agathinus (1st CE)


 * Aglaïs Poet. (doctor) (1st CE)


 * Aias/Abas (5th-4th BCE)


 * Alexander Trallianus (6th CE)


 * Andromachus Poet. (doctor) (1st CE)


 * Antonius Castor (2nd CE)


 * Apollonius Citiensis (1st BCE)


 * Apollonius (doctor) (3rd BCE)


 * Archigenes (2nd CE)


 * Aretaeus (2nd CE)


 * Aristotle (4th BCE)


 * Asclepiades Junior (1st-2nd CE)


 * Asclepiades Prusensis (2nd-1st BCE)


 * Athenaeus of Attalia (1st BCE)


 * Aulus Gellius (2nd CE)


 * Bolus, Phil.


 * Caelius Aurelianus (5th CE)


 * Cassius Iatrosophista (3rd CE)


 * Charixenes (2nd CE)


 * Crateuas (2nd BCE)


 * Crito (doctor) (1st-2nd CE)


 * Ctesias (5th BCE)


 * Damocrates (1st CE)


 * Demetrius Apamensis


 * Dexippus of Cos


 * Dieuches


 * Diocles of Carystus


 * Dioscorides (1st CE)


 * Erasistratus (3rd BCE)


 * Erotianus Gramm., (medic) (1st CE)


 * Eudemus Poet. (doctor)


 * Euthydemus (doctor)


 * Fronto


 * Galen (2nd CE)


 * Gargilius Martialis (3rd CE)


 * Harpocratio (1st-2nd CE)


 * Heliodorus (1st-2nd CE)


 * Heraclas


 * Heraclides Tarentinus (1st BCE)


 * Herodotus (doctor) (1st CE)


 * Herophilus (3rd BCE)


 * Hicesius (1st BCE)


 * Hippocrates (Hippocratic Corpus) (5th BCE)


 * Joannes Actuarius


 * L. Annaeus Seneca


 * Leonidas (doctor) (1st-2nd CE)


 * M. Porcius Cato


 * Marcellinus (doctor) (2nd CE?)


 * Marcellus Sidetes (2nd CE)


 * Meges (doctor) (1st CE)


 * Meletius


 * Menemachus (1st CE)


 * Mnesitheus Atheniensis (3rd BCE)


 * Mnesitheus Cyzicenus


 * Nepualius (Neptunalius, Neptunianus)


 * Niger, Sextius


 * Oribasius (4th CE)


 * Ovid (1st CE)


 * Palladius (doctor)


 * Paulus Aegineta (7th CE)


 * Phasias of Tenedos


 * Philagrius (3rd-4th CE)


 * Philinus (3rd BCE)


 * Philistion (5th-4th BCE)


 * Philo Tarsensis


 * Philotymus


 * Philoxenus (doctor) (3rd BCE)


 * Philumenus (3rd CE)


 * Phylotimus


 * Pliny the Elder (1st CE)


 * Plistonicus


 * Plutarch (2nd CE)


 * Posidonius (3rd-4th CE)


 * Praxagoras of Cos (4th BCE)


 * Q. Serenus (Sammonicus)


 * Rufus (2nd CE)


 * Scribonius Largus (1st CE)


 * Serapion (3rd BCE)


 * Severus (doctor) (4th CE)


 * Sextus Empiricus


 * Soranus (doctor) (2nd CE)


 * Stephanus Med. (7th CE)


 * Stephanus, Phil (7th CE)


 * Themison (1st BCE)


 * Theon Gymnasiarcha


 * Theophilus Protospatharius


 * Theophrastus


 * Thessalus of Tralles (1st CE)


 * Thrasymachus of Sardis


 * Timotheus of Metapontion


 * Xenocrates Med (1st CE)


 * Zopyrus (1st CE)