What is "andronicus"

Andronicus or Andronikos is a classical Greek name. The name has the sense of "male victor, warrior". The female is Andronike (Ἀνδρονίκη). Notable bearers of the name include:

• Andronicus of Olynthus, Greek general under Demetrius in the 4th century BC
• Livius Andronicus (c. 284–204 BC), introduced drama to the Romans and produced the first formal play in Latin in c.240 BC
• Andronicus ben Meshullam, a Jewish scholar of the 2nd century BC
• Andronicus of Pergamum, a 2nd-century BC diplomat
• Andronicus of Macedonia, governor of Ephesus in 2nd century BC
• Andronicus of Cyrrhus (c. 100 BC), Greek astronomer
• Andronicus of Rhodes (c. 70 BC), Greek philosopher
• Andronicus of Pannonia (Saint Andronicus), an Apostle of the Seventy mentioned in Romans 16:7
• Andronicus (physician), a Greek physician of the 2nd century
• Andronicus (poet), a writer of the 4th century
• Andronicus, Probus, and Tarachus (Saint Andronicus), a 4th-century martyr
• Andronicus of Alexandria, a soldier, martyr, saint, and companion of Faustus, Abibus and Dionysius of Alexandria
• Coptic Pope Andronicus of Alexandria (reigned 616–622)
• Five Byzantine emperors:
  • Andronikos I Komnenos (1118–1185)
  • Andronikos II Palaiologos (1258–1332)
  • Andronikos III Palaiologos (1297–1341)
  • Andronikos IV Palaiologos (1348–1385)
  • Andronikos V Palaiologos (c. 1400 – c. 1407), co-emperor with his father John VII Palaiologos
• Andronikos Palaiologos, Lord of Thessalonike (1403–1429)
• Three emperors of Trebizond:
  • Andronikos I of Trebizond (died 1235)
  • Andronikos II of Trebizond (c. 1240–1266)
  • Andronikos III of Trebizond (c. 1310–1332)
• In fiction:
• Titus Andronicus, a play by William Shakespeare, possibly inspired by one of the above-listed emperors
• Andronicus, or the Unfortunate Politician, a 1646 satire by Thomas Fuller

Andronicus was an ancient Greek physician.

He was mentioned by Galen and Theodorus Priscianus, who must therefore have lived some time before the second century. No other particulars are known respecting him; but it may be remarked, that the Andronicus quoted several times by Galen with the epithet Peripateticus or Rhodius, is probably another person. Both André Tiraqueau and Johann Albert Fabricius referred to him as "Andronicus Ticianus," but this is considered a mistake by later scholars, as Andronicus and Titianus appear to have been two different persons.

Andronicus was a poet of ancient Greece.

He was a contemporary of the emperor Constantius II, around 360. The sophist rhetorician Libanius wrote that the sweetness of his poetry gained him the favor of all the towns (probably of Egypt) as far as the Ethiopians, but that the full development of his talents was checked by the death of his mother and the misfortune of his native town (which may have been Hermopolis).

If he is the same as the Andronicus mentioned by Photios I of Constantinople as the author of dramas and various other poems, he was a native of Hermopolis in Egypt, of which town he was decurio. Themistius, who speaks of a young poet in Egypt as the author of a tragedy, epic poems, and dithyrambs, appears likewise to allude to this Andronicus. In 359, Andronicus, with several other persons in the east and in Egypt, incurred the suspicion of indulging in pagan practices. He was tried by Paulus Catena, whom the emperor had despatched for the purpose, but he was found innocent and acquitted.

No fragments of his works are extant, with the exception of an epigram in the Greek Anthology.