# Dioscorides

- id: dioscorides
- name in original script: Διοσκουρίδης
- dates: fl. mid-1st century CE
- roles: author

Greek army physician from Anazarbus in Cilicia. His catalogue of drugs and the plants they come from stayed in working use, in one language or another, for over fifteen hundred years.

## Works in the atlas

- De Materia Medica (materia-medica)

## Sources

- Pormann, Peter E. and Savage-Smith, Emilie (2007). Medieval Islamic Medicine.