Adamantius (physician)

Adamantius (Ancient Greek: Αδαμάντιος) was an ancient physician, bearing the title of iatrosophist (ιατρικων λόγων σοφιστής; broadly, "professor of medicine").

[2] Adamantius is the author of a Greek treatise on physiognomy (φυσιογνωμονικά) in two books.

It is still extant, and borrows in a great measure (as Adamantius himself confesses) from Polemon's work on the same subject.

De Ventis), is quoted by the Scholiast to Hesiod, and an extract from it is given by Aëtius Amidenus.

[5] The text was published in 1864 by Valentin Rose in Anecdota Graeca.