Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Hippocrates of Kos (/ h ɪ ˈ p ɒ k r ə t iː z /, Ancient Greek: Ἱπποκράτης ὁ Κῷος, romanized: Hippokrátēs ho Kôios; c. 460 – c. 370 BC), also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician and philosopher of the classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.
Hippocrates (Ancient Greek: Ἱπποκράτης, Hippokrátēs) was the father of Peisistratos, the tyrant of Athens. According to Herodotus, he received an omen when he was at Olympia to see the ancient Olympic Games. Vessels filled with meat and water spontaneously boiled over after he offered the sacrifice, though the vessels were not ...
Not much is known about the early years of Pisistratus' life, but his father, Hippocrates, attended the Olympic Games in either 608 or 604, and during a sacrifice to the gods, the meat was said to have been boiled without a fire, as witnessed by Chilon the Lacedaemonian. As a result of this sign, Chilon recommended that Hippocrates send away ...
The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field.Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field; they may also be seen as "a" rather than "the" father or mother of the field.
Hippocrates IV. According to Galen (Latin: Galenus), he was the son of Draco I, and the grandson of Hippocrates II; [3] he lived in the 4th century BC, and is said to have written some medical works. The Suda, which may be confused, makes him the son of Draco II, [4] (and therefore, the great-grandson of Hippocrates II), and the father of Draco ...
Draco (or Dracon, Greek: Δράκον) was the name of several physicians in the family of Hippocrates. Draco I. Lived 5th to 4th centuries BC, was the son of Hippocrates, the famous physician (Hippocrates II). He was the brother of Thessalus. [1] Galen tells us that some of the writings of Hippocrates was attributed to his son Draco. Draco II.
U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk down Pennsylvania Avenue enroute to the White House during the inaugural parade in Washington on Tuesday, January 20, 2009.
Hippocrates was the father of another Megacles (ostracized 486 BC), who was the maternal grandfather of Alcibiades, [5] and a daughter, Agariste, the mother of Pericles and Ariphron. W. K. Lacey felt that Agariste was an epikleros, or sole heiress who was required to have children to perpetuate her father's family. [6]