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Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200)
- Galen appears uncertain whether Asklepius (as well as Dionysus) was originally a god, or whether he was first a man and then became afterwards a god; but Apollodorus professed to fix the exact date of his apotheosis.Footnotes (44% in)
There are no more uses of "Galen" in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope).
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