Appointment of Physician Galen of Pergamon as Personal Doctor to Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (169 AD)

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Periods

• Roman era

Narrative stops

• Bergama Birthplace of Physician Galen and Asklepieion Sacred Medical School
• Bodrum Halicarnassus Birthplace of Herodotus 'Father of History' and Acropolis
• Miletus Birthplace of Thales and Anaximander and Ionian Philosophy School

Research sources

• Galen of Pergamon (MS 129–216): The Physician of Roman Emperors and the Foundation of Western Medicine
• The Intellectual Giants of Ionia & Karia: Herodotus of Halicarnassus and Thales of Miletus