Theramenes (healer)

Theramenes was a Greek healer and the father of Praxilla who lived in Balagrae in Cyrenaica during the 1st century BCE.

Biography

Theramenes operated a clinic outside the Asklepieion in Balagrae, providing medical aid to the residents in the town, in addition to the surrounding region. In 47 BCE, he met the Medjay Bayek of Siwa, who brought a blinded old man, Galenos, to the clinic. As the Medjay offered to help him recover a list of ingredients for Galenos' treatment, Theramenes provided a list of items: two ibex horns and three snake venoms. After recovering the materials, Theramenese provided Bayek information on the silphium, a type of weed which could provide pain relief to injuries. Since the plant was being processed located in a Roman depot, Theramenes enlisted his help to recover the weed, which Bayek succeeded in.

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Origins