Acumenus
Acumenus (Greek: Ἀκουμενός) was a physician of Athens who lived in the 5th century BC. He was mentioned as the friend and companion of Socrates.[1] He was the father of Eryximachus, who was also a physician, and who is introduced as one of the speakers in Plato's Symposium.[2] He is also mentioned in the collection of letters first published by Leo Allatius in 1637 (Epist. Socralis et Socraticorum), and again by Orellius in 1815.[3]
Both Acumenus and Eryximachus were implicated in accusations of sacrilege in 415. After being named by the slave Lydus as having profaned the Eleusinian Mysteries, Acumenus fled Athens.[4]
References[]
- ^ Plato, Phaedrus init.
- Xen. Memor. iii. 13. § 2 - ^ Plato, Protagoras p. 315, c.
- Plato, Symposium p. 176, c - ^ Greenhill, William Alexander (1867), "Acumenus", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, MA, p. 17
- ^ Nails, Debra (2002). The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics. Hackett Publishing. p. 2. ISBN 978-0872205642.
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