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Also known as Akron, Acro, Acro of Agrigent, Akron of Agrigentum

Acron (), son of Zeno of Elea, was a Greek physician born at Agrigentum (Gk. Acragas) in Magna Graecia.

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  • Scholia Horatiana Quae Feruntur Acronis et Porphyrionis Post Georgium Fabricium, Nunc Primum Emendatiora; Volume 2
  • Scholia Horatiana Quae Feruntur Acronis et Porphyrionis, Post G. Fabricium Nunc Primum Emendatiora Ed. F. Pauly; Volume 1

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Group
Origin
Brazil
Active from
1996

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Acron was a band formed in Campinas, SP, Brazil in 1996 They'd recorded a self-titled hard-to-find independent album in 1997 and two years later an album called Travel to Come Back. The band is no more... <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Acron">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Medical person.name
Acron
Medical person.native_name
Ἄκρων
Medical person.native_name_lang
grc
Medical person.image
Acrone.jpg
Medical person.birth_date
5th century BC
Medical person.birth_place
Agrigentum (Acragas), Magna Graecia
Medical person.occupation
Physician, philosopher
Medical person.field
Ancient Greek medicine
Medical person.notable_works
Works in the Doric dialect (now lost)
Medical person.relations
Zeno of Elea (father)

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Place of birth
Akragas
Image
Acrone.jpg
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0500-00-00
Commons category
Acrone di Agrigento
date of birth
0499-00-00
date of death
0401-00-00
significant place
Akragas
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Acron (), son of Zeno of Elea, was a Greek physician born at Agrigentum (Gk. Acragas) in Magna Graecia.

==Life== The exact dates of Acron is not known; but, as he is mentioned as being contemporary with Empedocles, who died about the beginning of the Peloponnesian War, he must have lived in the fifth century BC. From Sicily he went to Athens and there opened a philosophical school ().

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