Demokedes was a Greek physician--possibly a specialist in sports' medicine--who lived through the hinge period around 500 BCE.--an era of rapid and radical change from Italy to China. It is in Book Three of the Histories of Herodotus that we learn of the doctor's peregrinations from his home in Italy to Athens, to Ionia, to the very heart of the emerging Persian empire, and finally many years later back to his hometown of Kroton. Along the way he has encounters the major celebrities of that world: sports heroes, playwrights, poets, philosophers, tyrants, and King Darius of Persia. Indeed,...
Demokedes was a Greek physician--possibly a specialist in sports' medicine--who lived through the hinge period around 500 BCE.--an era of rapid and ra...
