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Moschion, , a physician quoted by Soranus, Andromachus, and Asclepiades Pharmacion, and who lived, therefore, in or before the 1st century. He may be the same person who was called the Corrector , because though he was one of the followers of Asclepiades of Bithynia, he ventured to controvert his opinions on some points.
A physician of the same name is mentioned also by Soranus, Plutarch, Alexander of Tralles, Aëtius Pliny, and Tertullian.
In Byzantine times, a Latin treatise on gynecology by an otherwise unknown Muscio was translated into Greek; this author came to be wrongly identified with Moschion.
Moschion (; 3rd century BC), was an Athenian tragic poet. Nothing is known about his life; he probably lived in the second half of the 3rd century BC. Three titles and a few fragments of his plays are preserved by Stobaeus. He wrote a Telephus, and two historical plays: Themistocles, of which we have a three line fragment, and the Men of Pherae (Pheraioi), which dealt with the death of Jason, the cruel tyrant of Pherae. Also extant are 33 lines of a speech from an anonymous play which deals with the history of human progress. In this fragment, he states that humans originally lived like animals, without houses or technology, law was absent, and cannibalism was rife. In the course of time, agriculture, cooking, wine, houses, and cities were introduced, civilisation was born, and people buried their dead so that people would not be reminded of their earlier cannibalism.
Moschion ( Greek: Μοσχίων) is the name of:
- Moschion (tragic poet), Greek tragic poet of the 3th century BC
- Moschion (physician), Greek physician of the 1st century AD or before, known through quotations by other medical writers
- Muscio, author of a treatise on gynecology in Latin (ca. AD 500), which was translated into Greek and known under the name Moschion
- Minor figures:
- Moschion, an Athenian sculptor mentioned in Winckelmann's History of Ancient Art
- Moschion, a notorious parasite mocked by Alexis
- Moschion, a renowned chef employed by Demetrius Phalereus
- Moschion, a character in several plays of Menander (including Samia and Perikeiromene)
- Moschion, a paradoxographer of the 3rd or 2nd century BC ( FGrHist 575) whose description of the Syracusia is quoted by Athenaeus