Queen Cleopatra and the other 'Cleopatras': their medical legacy.

Gregory Tsoucalas; Antonis A Kousoulis ORCID logo; Effie Poulakou-Rebelakou; Marianna Karamanou; Maria Papagrigoriou-Theodoridou; George Androutsos; (2013) Queen Cleopatra and the other 'Cleopatras': their medical legacy. Journal of medical biography, 22 (2). pp. 115-121. ISSN 0967-7720 DOI: 10.1177/0967772013480602
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Cleopatra is a female figure widespread in Greece (especially in Macedonian territory), Egypt and Syria during the Hellenistic era. Ancient women doctors bearing the name Cleopatra have been identified by a systematic search through the ancient Greek, Latin and Egyptian bibliography, including original resources from the first century BC. Fictional and non-fictional figures have been distinguished and their works identified. Queen Cleopatra of Egypt, Galen's physician assistant, the outcast Metrodora, Cleopatra the Alchemist and Cleopatra the Gynaecologist deliver a story of medicine and name-giving that confuses researchers of the past and intrigues those of the present.

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