fl. late first century B.C.-mid-first century A.D. Greek physician whose writings on anatomy included the pulse and its relationship to the heartbeat. Rufus was skilled in physiology, clinical observation, surgery, and the treatment of disease. He...

Rufus of Ephesus (fl. late 1st century AD) was an ancient physician and author who wrote treatises on dietetics, pathology, anatomy, and patient care. He was to some extent a follower of Hippocrates, although he at times criticized or departed from that...

Vineyards run free beside me and the sky Remains unbridled. Conflagrations exchange pinecones and an Ass departed goes high up the hill for a bit of cloud Something must be happening on Saint Heraclitus' day That not even noses can diagnose It is...

By tracing the background of three kinds of early Christian leadership offices that appeared in Ephesus in the second century, and by examining what issues a contemporary writer make about them, propositions about the emergence of office charisma are derived. External relations appear to...