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» For the early Christian theologian sometimes called Origenes Adamantius, see Origen. For others with this or similar names, see Adamantios or Adeimantus.
Adamantius (Gr.
Αδαμάντιος) was an ancient physician, bearing the title of
Iatrosophista (ιατρικων λόγων σοφιστής; broadly, "professor of medicine"). Little is known of his personal history, except that he was
Jewish by birth, and that he was one of those who fled from
Alexandria at the time of the expulsion of the Jews from that city by the
Patriarch Cyril of Alexandria in
415 AD. He went to
Constantinople, was persuaded to embrace
Christianity, apparently by
Archbishop Atticus of Constantinople, and then returned to Alexandria.
He is the author of a Greek treatise on
physiognomy (φυσιογνωμονικά) in two books. It is still extant, and borrows in a great measure (as Adamantius himself confesses) from
Polemon's work on the same subject. It is dedicated to "Constantius", who is supposed by
Fabricius to be the same Constantius who married
Placidia (for example
Constantius III), the daughter of
Theodosius the Great, and who reigned for seven months in conjunction with the
Emperor Honorius. It was first published in Greek in Paris in
1540.
Another of his works, Περί Ανέμων (Lat.
De Ventis), is quoted by the
Scholiast to
Hesiod, and an extract from it's given by
Aëtius Amidenus. As of the late 19th century, it was said to be still in existence in manuscript in the
Royal Library at Paris. Several of his medical prescriptions are preserved by
Oribasius and Aëtius.
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