What is "asclepiodotus"

Asclepiodotus Tacticus (; fl. 1st century BC) was a Greek writer and philosopher, and a pupil of Posidonius. According to Seneca, he wrote a work entitled Quaestionum Naturalium Causae.

A short work on military tactics survives. He is one of the earliest military writers whose studies on tactics have come down to us. He was not striped in the Helian nor Arrian's lists of tacticians, but in the earliest manuscript of the Tactics (Téchne taktiké), the work is attributed to Asclepiodotus. Tactics describes the workings of the Macedonian phalanx.

Asclepiodotus may refer to:

• Asclepiodotus of Heraclea (fl. 2nd century BC), commander in the Macedonian army during the Third Macedonian War
• Asclepiodotus (philosopher) (fl. 1st century BC), philosopher, writer, and pupil of Posidonius
• Asclepiodotus of Lesbos (fl. 1st century BC), conspirator against Mithridates VI of Pontus
• Cassius Asclepiodotus (fl. 1st century AD), wealthy Bithynian exiled by Nero
• Julius Asclepiodotus (fl. 3rd century AD), Roman prefect and consul who served under Aurelian, Probus and Diocletian
• Asclepiodotus (consul 423)
• Asclepiodotus of Alexandria (fl. 5th century AD), Greek Neoplatonist philosopher
• Asclepiodotus (physician) (fl. 5th century AD), Greek physician
• King Asclepiodotus, mythical king in the time of Diocletian

Asclepiodotus was a Greek physician, mathematician and musician of the late 5th century AD, who was best known for promoting the medicinal uses of white hellebore. He was a pupil of Jacobus Psychrestus, and is mentioned by Damascius.

Flavius Asclepiodotus or Asclepiades ( fl. 423–425) was a politician of the Eastern Roman Empire

Asclepiodotus was the brother of the sophist Leontius, and thus the uncle of Athenais, who in 421 married the Emperor Theodosius II taking the name of Aelia Eudocia. Eudocia favoured her family, exercising her influence over her husband to make Asclepiodotus' career advance.

In 422, Asclepiodotus was comes sacrarum largitionum, while between 14 February 423 (year in which Eudocia was appointed Augusta) to 1 February 425 he was Praetorian prefect of the East, and Consul in 423. He was deposed because he was denounced to Theodosius by Simeon Stylites to encourage pagans and Jews and to fight Christians, a charge no doubt reinforced by the fact that his family was pagan, although Athenais had to convert to Christianity before marriage.