Polybus

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Polybus (fl. c. 400 BCE) was an ancient Greek physician and author of the Hippocratic treatise On the Nature of Man, the earliest known text to advance a four-humor system of blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. According to Galen, he was the student and son-in-law of Hippocrates.

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In Greek mythology, there were six people named Polybus, or Pólybos.

1. A Corinthian king, husband of Merope or Periboea, who raised Oedipus, who had been abandoned by his mother. He was the father of Alcinoe.
2. A King of Sicyon, son of Hermes and Chthonophyle, daughter of the eponym of Sicyon. He inherited the throne of Sicyon from his grandfather; he had a daughter Lysimache or Lysianassa whom he married to Talaus of Argos. His successor was his grandson Adrastus.
3. A King of Thebes (in Egypt). Menelaus and Helen stayed in his court for a while after the Trojan War.
4. The father of a suitor, Eurymachus, of Penelope, killed by Eumaeus.
5. A son of Antenor and Theano, killed in the Trojan war by Neoptolemus