Serapion

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Serapion /səˈrpiən/ can refer to:

Physicians

  • Serapion of Alexandria (3rd century BC), Greek physician
  • Yahya ibn Sarafyun (9th century), also known as Serapion the Elder or Johannes Serapion, Christian physician who wrote two medical compilations in Syriac
  • Serapion the Younger (c. 12th century), physician who wrote The Book of Simple Medicine (in Arabic)

Christianity

Other

  • Serapion, probably negotiated in 48 BC for Caesar with Achillas, strategos of Cyprus in 43 BC, executed in 41 BC
  • Serapion (Disciple of Plotinus) was a 3rd-century neoplatonic philosopher and student of Plotinus
  • Saint Serapion (Zurbarán) an oil on canvas painting by the Spanish artist Francisco Zurbarán.
  • Serapion Brothers, a literary movement in the early Soviet Union
  • Sarapion, ancient port city in present-day south-central Somalia
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