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Philoxenus or Philoxenos (Greek, "lover of foreigners") is the name of several prominent ancient Greeks:
- Philoxenus of Cythera, an ancient Greek dithyrambic poet
- Philoxenus of Leucas, a legendary glutton
- King Philoxenus, an Indo-Greek king
- Philoxenus (general), a Macedonian general who was one of the Diadochi
- Philoxenus (physician), ancient Greek physician
- Philoxenus of Mabbug (d. 523), Syriac writer and proponent of Miaphysitism
- Philoxenus of Eretria, Hellenistic painter
Philoxenus (in Greek Φιλoξενoς) was a Macedonian officer appointed to superintend the collection of the tribute in the provinces north of the Taurus Mountains after Alexander the Great's return from Egypt (331 BC). However, he did not immediately assume this command because he was sent forward by Alexander from the field of Gaugamela to take possession of Susa and the treasures there deposited, which he effected without opposition. After this he seems to have remained quietly in the discharge of his functions in Asia Minor, until the commencement of the year 323 BC, when he conducted a reinforcement of troops from Caria to Babylon, where he arrived just before the last illness of Alexander. In the distribution of the provinces which followed the death of that monarch, there is no mention of Philoxenus, but in 321 BC he was appointed by Perdiccas to succeed Philotas in the government of Cilicia. By what means he afterwards conciliated the favour of Antipater is unknown, but in the partition at Triparadisus after the fall of Perdiccas the same year he was still allowed to retain his satrapy of Cilicia. No information exists beyond then.
Philoxenus or Claudius Philoxenus , a Greco-Egyptian surgeon, who, according to Celsus, wrote several valuable volumes on surgery. He is no doubt the same person whose medical formulae are frequently quoted by Galen, and who is called by him Claudius Philoxenus. As he is quoted by Asclepiades Pharmacion, he must have lived in or before the 1st century. He is quoted also by Soranus, Paul of Aegina, Aëtius, and Nicolaus Myrepsus, and also by Avicenna.