Front of Celsus Library with aediculae

Remains of the Library of Celsus at Ephesus

The Library of Celsus in Ephesus, Anatolia, now part of Selçuk, Turkey was built in honor of the Roman Senator Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus ( completed in 135 AD ) by Celsus ’ son, Gaius Julius Aquila ( consul, 110 AD ).

Personification of wisdom ( in Greek language | Greek, " Σοφία " or " Sophia ( wisdom ) | Sophia ") at the Celsus Library in Ephesus, Turkey.

Personification of virtue ( Greek Language | Greek ἀρετή ) in Celsus Library in Ephesos, Turkey

Cyrene, with its port of Apollonia ( Marsa Susa ), remained an important urban center until the earthquake of 262, which damaged the Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephon and destroyed the Library of Celsus.

Personification of knowledge ( Greek language | Greek Επιστημη, Episteme ) in Celsus Library in Ephesus, Turkey.

Statue of Arete in Library of Celsus | Celsus ' Library in Ephesus.

Personification of Episteme in Celsus Library in Ephesus, Turkey.

The temple is located behind the Library of Celsus.

View west along the Harbour Street towards the Library of Celsus in Ephesus.

* C. Celsus, On Medicine, I, Proem 23, 1935, translated by W. G. Spencer ( Loeb Classics Library, 1992 ).

The library dating from the 2nd century A. D. is considered to be Turkey's second-best preserved ancient library structure after the " Celsus Library " of Ephesus.

Personification of wisdom ( in Greek language | Greek, " Σοφία " or " Sophia ") at the Celsus Library in Ephesus, Turkey.

Chief works, besides the above: Reformationsblätter der Reichsstadt Esslingen ( 1860 ); Ambrosius Blarer, der Schwäbische Reformator ( 1860 ); Der Übertritt Konstantins d. Gr. zum Christenthum ( 1862 ); his sermons, Freundesworte zur Gemeinde ( 2 vols., 1861-1862 ); and Celsus ' wahres Wort ( 1873 ).

The use of celery seed in pills for relieving pain was described by Aulus Cornelius Celsus around 30 AD.

Although most of the relevant tissues and endocrine glands had been identified by early anatomists, a more humoral approach to understanding biological function and disease was favoured by the ancient Greek and Roman thinkers such as Aristotle, Hippocrates, Lucretius, Celsus, and Galen, according to Freeman et al., and these theories held sway until the advent of germ theory, physiology, and organ basis of pathology in the 19th century.

The library was built to store 12, 000 scrolls and to serve as a monumental tomb for Celsus.

At the same time the fears of the more sober and respectable citizens were allayed by Otho's liberal professions of his intention to govern equitably, and by his judicious clemency towards Marius Celsus, consul-designate, a devoted adherent of Galba.

" The name " Paracelsus " was a pseudonym signifying him the equal or better of Aulus Cornelius Celsus, whose text, which described the use of opium or a similar preparation, had recently been translated and reintroduced to medieval Europe.

* Aulus Cornelius Celsus writes a dictionary ( encyclopedia ) on the arts and sciences.

The Roman medical treatise De Medicina by Aulus Cornelius Celsus contained a description of lithotomy, and this work served as the basis for this procedure until the 18th century.

Notwithstanding, Aulus Cornelius Celsus left some surprisingly accurate anatomical descriptions, some of which — for instance, his studies on the genitalia and the skeleton — are of special interest to plastic surgery.

* Origen writes an eight-volume work criticizing the pagan writer Celsus.

Ancient Greek and Roman medical texts by Hippocrates, Theophrastus, Aulus Cornelius Celsus, Pedanius Dioscorides, and Pliny the Elder discussed the use of opium and Solanum species.

* Aulus Cornelius Celsus, author of De Medicina ( d. c. AD 50 )

37-" The Egyptians, then, having been taught to worship Antinous, will, if you compare him with Apollo or Zeus, endure such a comparison, Antinous being magnified in their estimation through being classed with these deities ; for Celsus is clearly convicted of falsehood when he says, ' that they will not endure his being compared with Apollo or Zeus.

He is also mentioned by Celsus, Caelius Aurelianus, and Pliny.

In the 2nd century, Celsus, a pagan anti-Christian Greek philosopher wrote that Jesus's father was a Roman soldier named Pantera.

The views of Celsus drew responses from Origen who considered it a fabricated story.

He and Publius Marius Celsus defeated Aulus Caecina Alienus, one of Vitellius's generals, near Cremona, but Suetonius would not allow his men to follow up their advantage and was accused of treachery as a result.

" Paracelsus ", meaning " equal to or greater than Celsus ", refers to the Roman encyclopedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus from the 1st century, known for his tract on medicine.

Titus Annius Milo Papianus was a Roman political agitator, the son of Gaius Papius Celsus, but adopted by his maternal grandfather, Titus Annius Luscus.

Origen ( c. 185 – 254 ) is led to speak of the Ophites ( Contra Celsum 5: 28 ) by an accusation of Celsus that the Christians counted seven heavens, and spoke of the Creator as an accursed divinity, inasmuch as he was worthy of execration for cursing the serpent who introduced the first human beings to the knowledge of good and evil.

Origen ( c. 248 CE ) responded to Celsus ' claim by saying that Pantheras was the patronymic of Joseph the husband of Mary on account of his father, Jacob, being called Panther.

* Origen ( c. 185 – 254 ): On Principles, Against Celsus.

The Roman medical encyclopedist Celsus ( ca 30 BC – 38 AD ) described the four cardinal signs of acute inflammation as tumor, dolor, calor, and rubor ( swelling, pain, increased heat, and redness ).

Aulus Cornelius Celsus, who lived in the first century AD, described plastic surgery of the face, using skin from other parts of the body

Aulus Cornelius Celsus ( 30 AD ) described the linkage with alcohol, later onset in women, and associated kidney problems:

* Aulus Cornelius Celsus ( 25 BC – 50 AD ), physician, encyclopedist

* Publius Iuventius Celsus Titus Aufidius Hoenius Severianus ( 1st and early 2nd centuries AD ), imperial officer, jurist

During the Roman Empire ( 27 BC – AD 476 ) the encyclopaedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus ( ca.

Roughly a millennium later the Roman aristocrat Aulus Cornelius Celsus ( 25 AD – 50 AD ) described a procedure whereby using the finger ( or a blunt hook if necessary ), the tonsil was separated from the neighboring tissue prior to being cut out.

The ancient Greeks also used waxes and resins to create stiffened bandages and the Roman Celsus, writing in AD 30, describes how to use splints and bandages stiffened with starch.

The first references to cataract and its treatment in the West are found in 29 AD in De Medicinae, the work of the Latin encyclopedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus, which also describes the couching operation.

Neratius Marcellus was elected consul ordinarius in AD 129, serving alongside Publius Iuventius Celsus Titus Aufidius Hoenius Severianus.