# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pausanias-of-gela
# Generated: 2026-08-16T08:40:00.675Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pausanias-of-gela"
name: "Pausanias of Gela"
slug: "pausanias-of-gela"
description: "Pausanias was a native of Sicily, Magna Graecia, who belonged to the family of the Asclepiadae and whose father's name was Anchitus. He was a physician, and an eromenos of the philosopher Empedocles, who dedicated his poem On Nature to him. There is an extant a Greek epigram on this Pausanias, which the Greek Anthology attributes to Simonides, but Diogenes Laërtius to Empedocles. These two sources also differ as to whether he was born or buried at Gela in Sicily."
tagline: "Physician of the 5th century BC, who was a friend of Empedocles"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pausania_di_Gela.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           38.82
  momentum:             7.746126936531736
  historical:           5.070590666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pausanias_of_Sicily"
    title: "Pausanias of Sicily"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%BE%D1%82_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F"
    title: "Павзаний от Сицилия"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paus%C3%A0nies_de_Sic%C3%ADlia"
    title: "Pausànies de Sicília"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pausania_di_Gela"
    title: "Pausania di Gela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa%C5%ADzanio_de_Gela"
    title: "Paŭzanio de Gela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pausania_di_Gela"
    title: "Pausania di Gela"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q860714"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump