160: Philosophy and Medicine

Portrait of the Seleucid and Ptolemaic physician Erisistratos by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, c. 1860

Unfortunately for the study of Seleucid philosophy, the Seleucid kings were not major patrons of the lovers of wisdom as their Hellenistic neighbors were, and the works of the philosophers they did patronize have not survived. However, somewhat more can be said of Seleucid patronage of ancient medicine.
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