# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pedanius-dioscorides
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:35:14.163Z

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name: "Pedanius Dioscorides"
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description: "A Greek physician who wrote the drug reference that ruled medicine for fifteen centuries. His five-volume encyclopedia on plants and remedies became the standard text from Rome to the Renaissance — the book every healer opened first."
tagline: "Greco-Roman physician and pharmacologist (AD c.40-90)"
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birthDate: "40"
deathDate: "90"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Pedanius Dioscorides lived around 40–90 AD, working as a physician, pharmacologist, and botanist. He produced De materia medica, a five-volume Greek encyclopedia cataloging herbal medicines and medicinal substances. The work was widely read for more than 1,500 years after its creation. For nearly two millennia, Dioscorides held the position as the most prominent authority on plants and plant drugs, earning him the retrospective title "the father of pharmacognosy."