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name: Andromachus the Elder Physician of Crete
name_greek: Ἀνδρόμαχος ὁ Κρητικός
eul_aid: obk
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/authors/andromachus-the-elder-obk"
period: Roman
dialect: Technical Koine
works_count: 1
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Andromachus the Elder Physician of Crete

*Ἀνδρόμαχος ὁ Κρητικός*

**eul_aid:** `obk` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/authors/andromachus-the-elder-obk)

Andromachus the Elder, a 1st century CE Cretan physician. His medical poetry includes pharmacological verse. Free to download from the Greek library archive.

## Works

- [Hymn to Nero the Antidote](https://eulogikon.org/works/andromachus-crete-hymn-nero-obk-aa) — *Ἀπόσπασμα* · `obk-aa`

## License and provenance

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