Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - KING ARIARATHES IV OF CAPPADOCIA
(220–163 BC)'S IMPOTENCE IN THE LIGHT
OF THYROID DISEASE: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY
PALAEOPATHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
AU  - Galassi FM
AU  - Pate D
AU  - Antunes-Ferreira N
AU  - Varotto E
Y1  - 2021
VL  - 59
IS  - 1
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 87
EP  - 92
KW  - Endocrinology – Thyroid – Sterility – Erectile dysfunction – History of medicine – Palaeopathology
N2  - 
N2  - For a long time historical research dismissed the account about King Ariarathes IV of Cappadocia's
(reigned 220–163 BC) wife being unable to produce an offspring just as a defamatory explanation concocted by later
writers to cover subtler political moves. Having palaeopathologically re-examined the biographical record of King
Ariarathes IV in the light of a recently proposed diagnosis of thyroid goiter, by multidisciplinarily combining literary
and artistic evidence with biomedical knowledge and rationale, this article proposes an endocrinologically originated
sexual dysfunction in King Ariarathes IV and offers a new reading of the subsequent shaming of his spouse.
ER  -