Alcmaeon
At a glance:
- Series: Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Philosophy, Science, Medicine, Health
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Philosophers, Scientists, Doctors, Physicians, Nurses, Hellenistic Age, Ancient Greece
- Curriculum: Western Civilization/European History, Ancient History
Article abstract: Greek philosopher and scientist{$I[g]Greece;Alcmaeon} Alcmaeon was one of the earliest Greeks known to have written on medicine and the first to have practiced scientific dissection.
Early Life
Almost nothing is known about the early life of Alcmaeon (alk-MEE-uhn) except that his father’s name was Peirithous and that he was a native of Croton (Greek Crotona), a coastal town inside the “toe” of Italy. Even Alcmaeon’s dates are uncertain. According to Aristotle, he lived during the old age of the philosopher Pythagoras, whose life...
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