Acron
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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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Key facts
- 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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Akragas
- Occupation
- philosopher
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Movement
- Pythagoreanism
- Image
- Acrone.jpg
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- floruit
- 0500-00-00
- time period
- classical antiquity
- Commons category
- Acrone di Agrigento
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- writing language
- Ancient Greek
- 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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