Talk:Therapeutae

message: User:Piledhighandeep added Buddhist material on this edit: []. WP:AGF & fascinated by the possibility of Buddhist graves in Ptolemaic Egypt, I checked out the (incomplete) Tarn reference on Google books. I found nothing to back up the reference; so in the event of this not deemed to be WP:fringe, that reference at least needs replacing. I've notified User:Piledhighandeep. Ian McDonald (talk) 22:28, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Update Feb 4 2015

message: Whether you are convinced or not is beside the point. Your/our job as editors is to report and list the variety of opinions out there, rather than filter them according to our own opinions and, ignorance! The reader may find it interesting/important/etc. that some have suggested or spoken of a Buddhist connection. I shall say no more. 197.134.127.181 (talk) 18:42, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: it's not about what you think

message: The primary source content about Eusebius identifying Therapeutae as Christians wasn't a great deal better, the box quote turned into a source ref. In ictu oculi (talk) 22:10, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Early patristics

message: This does not appear to be mentioned and should be. There are ample testimonies to the existence of such a group in the early centuries, and they were associated with the temple network of Asclepius, the healing god of the Roman Empire before the 4th century.  The physician Galen, personal attendant to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius considered himself to be one of the "Therapeutae of Asclepius".
The following is taken from a discussion and lists the classical sources that mention "therapeutae".
One alternative might be to create a separate page for these "pagan" therapeutae.
 
The verb θεραπεύω/therapeuo in some form appears in some 300 extant Greek documents from antiquity, sometimes dozens of usages in the same text, for a total of thousands of instances. It is therefore hardly an obscure term. Yet, the scholarship concerning the mysterious Therapeuts of Philo makes it seem as if this word is very unfamiliar to both us and the ancient readers of Greek. That misconception needs to be disabused, as does the notion that Philo's Therapeuts were the only such individuals by that name in the Mediterranean of the time. 
Achilles Tatius
Aelian
Aeschines
Antiphon
Apollodorus
Appian
Aristides (numerous times)
Aristophanes
Arrian
Athenaeus (numerous times)
Cassius Dio
Chariton
Claudius Ptolemy
Demosthenes
Dio Chrysostom
Diodorus
Diogenes
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Epictetus
Euripides (numerous times)
Galen
Herodotus
Hesiod
Hippocrates
Homer
Hymn 3 to Apollo
Hyperides
Isaeus
Isocrates
Julian (many times)
Lucian (numerous times)
Lysias
Marcus Aurelius
Onasander
Philostratus the Athenian
Pindar
Plato (especially popular in Plato)
Plutarch (many, many times - MOST references are in Plutarch)
Polybius
Procopius
Sophocles
Strabo
Theophrastus
Thucydides (numerous times)
Xenophon User:203.51.106.116 (talk)‎ . 
:Hi 203.51.106.116 I've included a "name" section with the full 5x relevant LSJ entries as footnotes, and have wikilinked to the classical authors. It's worth noting that there were other therapeutae for Serapis and at Delos. However, in terms of weight, those are simply just random uses of a commonish Greek word for worshipper. This is about a Jewish sect. Beyond noting that the word isn't Philo's coinage, there's not much else needs doing. In ictu oculi (talk) 13:26, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Please look in a book. In ictu oculi (talk) 05:26, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: The Therapeutae of Asclepius