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Headword: *swrano/s
Adler number: sigma,851
Translated headword: Soranos, Soranus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Son of Menandros and Phoebe; of Ephesos; a doctor. He spent time in Alexandria and practised medicine in Rome under the emperors Trajan and Hadrian. He wrote a large number of very fine books.
Greek Original:
*swrano/s, *mena/ndrou kai\ *foi/bhs, *)efe/sios, i)atro/s, diatri/yas e)n *)alecandrei/a| kai\ e)n th=| *(rw/mh| de\ i)atreu/sas e)pi\ *trai+anou= kai\ *)adrianou= tw=n basile/wn bibli/a te sunta/cas plei=sta kai\ ka/llista.
Note:
C1/2 CE. Cf. sigma 852; and see generally OCD4 s.v. Some twenty books are known, most notably the (surviving) 4-volume Gynaecology; there is a translation (1956) by O.Temkin.
References:
R. Garland, The Greek Way of Life (London 1990) 19 and passim
K. Kapparis, Abortion in the Ancient World (London 2002) 2 and passim
Keywords: biography; chronology; geography; medicine; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 23 September 2002@03:22:26.
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