What is "eudemus"

Eudemus (; died 316 BC) was one of Alexander the Great's generals. In 326 BC he was appointed by the king as the commander of Alexander's troops in India. After Alexander's death, Eudemus effectively controlled Alexander's northern Indian territories until he became involved in the Wars of the Diadochi during which he was captured and killed by Antigonus.

Eudemus (, Eudēmos) may refer to:

• , d. 353 BC, a political exile from Cyprus and friend of Aristotle, after whom Aristotle's dialogue Eudemus, or On the Soul was named: see Corpus Aristotelicum#Fragments

• Eudemus of Rhodes, c. 370-300 BC, philosopher and student of Aristotle
• Eudemus (general), d. 316 BC, general of Alexander the Great
• Eudemus (physician), any of several Greek physicians, 4th century BC–2nd century AD
• Eudemus of Pergamum, 3rd century BC, teacher of Philonides of Laodicea and dedicatee of Book 2 of Apollonius of Perga's Conics
• Eudemus of Pergamum, 2nd century BC, implicated in the enmity between Tiberius Gracchus and Q. Pompeius
• Eudemus of Argos, 2nd century AD, author of On Rhetorical Language (Περὶ λέξεων ῥητορικῶν), perhaps an important source of the Suda
• Avdimi of Haifa, an Amora of the late 3rd/early 4th century AD
• Eudemus, Bishop of Patara (Lycia), 4th century AD
• Eudemos, the name of two Catholicoi of the Catholicate of Abkhazia (16th and 17th centuries)
• Eudemos I, of the Diasamidze family, Catholicos of Kartli in the 1630s

Eudemus was the name of several Greek physicians, whom it is difficult to distinguish with certainty:

• A druggist, who apparently lived in the 4th or 3rd century BC. He is said by Theophrastus, to have been eminent in his trade, and to have professed to be able to take hellebore without being purged.
• A celebrated anatomist, who lived probably about the 3rd century BC, as Galen calls him a contemporary of Herophilus and Erasistratus. He appears to have given particular attention to the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. He considered the metacarpus and metatarsus each to consist of five bones, on which point Galen differed from him, but modern anatomists agree with him. He, however, fell into the error of supposing the acromion to be a distinct and separate bone.
• A physician at Rome, who was the paramour of Livilla, the wife of Drusus Julius Caesar, the son of the emperor Tiberius, and who joined her and Sejanus in their plot for poisoning her husband, 23 AD. He was afterwards put to the torture. He is supposed to be the same person who is said by Caelius Aurelianus to have been one of the followers of Themison, and whose medical observations on hydrophobia and some other diseases are quoted by him. He appears to be the same physician who is mentioned by Galen among several others as belonging to the Methodic school.
• A contemporary and personal acquaintance of Galen, in the latter part of the 2nd century.

The name is also mentioned several times by Galen, Athenaeus, and by other writers.