Machaon

So saying he spake to godlike Talthybios, his herald: "Talthybios, with all speed call Machaon hither, the hero son of Asklepios the noble leech, to see Menelaos, Atreus 'warrior son, whom one well skilled in archery, some Trojan or Lykian, hath wounded with a bow-shot, to his glory and our grief."

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

The ships were commanded by generals of the cities which had furnished them; the Corinthian squadron by Machaon, Isocrates, and Agatharchidas.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

His father, Nikomachus, was a member of the guild of the Asklepiadai, a group of skilled physicians who took their name and were allegedly descended from Asklepios, the father of the famed medical practitioners on the battlefields of Troy, Machaon and Podaleirios.

About Aristotle 2007

Father of Podaleirius and Machaon, “the noble leech,” “Il.” ii.

On Hunting 2007

Machaon was killed by Eurypylus, the son of Telephus.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Machaon and Podaleirius, the leaders of the Achaeans, see

On Hunting 2007

Some say that such praise as this 247 does not apply to physicians generally, but only to Machaon: and some say that he only practised surgery, while Podaleirius treated sicknesses.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Machaon and Podaleirius36 were trained in this same lore, and proved themselves adepts in works of skill, in argument and feats of arms. 37

On Hunting 2007

Philoctetes is healed by Machaon, fights in single combat with Alexandrus and kills him: the dead body is outraged by Menelaus, but the Trojans recover and bury it.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

But the wound bled enough to worry Agamemnon, who called for the doctor Machaon.

The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006