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Claudius Galen Research Paper

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Claudius Galen was born in September 129 C.E. in Pergamum, located in Asia Minor (present-day Turkey). He was born and raised in the city where the temple of Asclepius (God of healing) was located and a library with 50,000 volumes. His family was wealthy and he received the best education in politics and philosophy. By the time he was a teenager, he was well-acquainted with Plato, Aristotle’s and the Stoics. His father died when he was only 20 years old, so Galen used the money he inherited to travel and study medicine throughout the Mediterranean and Near East. He returned to Pergamum eight years later, and was appointed as doctor to the gladiators by the high priest of Asia, which represented an honor because of his young age. Due to his

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