Cassius the Iatrosophist was a physician-teacher or medical writer of the Roman Imperial period, most likely active in the 2nd–3rd century CE. His epithet links him to the learned medical circles of centres like Alexandria. No specific biographical details survive beyond what can be inferred from his sole extant work.
His only known writing is the Problems, also known as Medical Questions and Problems, a medical question-and-answer text. Cassius is an exemplar of the "problemata" genre within ancient medicine and natural philosophy. His work, following a tradition popularized by the pseudo-Aristotelian Problems, blends Hippocratic, Aristotelian, and Hellenistic ideas to address physiological, dietary, and environmental questions. It documents the pedagogical transmission of consolidated medical knowledge in late antiquity.
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