Gaius Stertinius Xenophon (* approx. 10 v. Chr. on Kos; "† after 54 n. Chr.) was a body physician of the Roman emperor Claudius.

Xenophon came from the Greek island Kos, which belonged at that time to the Roman province Asia. There it gave a famous Heiligtum of the Asklepios, where it was trained as the physician, before it went to Rome. It received the Roman citizen right and could with its medical activity a large fortune of 30 million Sesterzen (common with its brother) acquire. As a body physician of the Claudius he got an annual fee of 500.000 Sesterzen, of his former private patients allegedly still far more. Xenophon accompanied the emperor on its campaign after Britannien and received military honors. Its house in Rome lay, like a Wasserleitungsrohr with its name shows, on the hill Caelius.

As Agrippina, the woman of the Claudius, in the year 54 n. Chr. tried to poison its man Xenophon (after of the famous Giftmischerin Locusta had malfunctioned supplied poison) helped to finally cause death. It led a feather/spring into the throat of the emperor (allegedly to bring around it to vomiting), which was provided with a fast working poison, as the historian Tacitus in its annals (12, 67) reports. Whether the death of the Claudius was really a poison murder, is however not undisputed in the research.

To the death of the Claudius Xenophon returned to Kos, where he made rich allowances for the Heiligtum of the Asklepios from his fortune. It was therefore honoured with statues and highly.

Literature

• Kostas Buraselis: Notes on C. Stertinius Xenophon's novel more career, family, titulature and official integration into Koan civil life and society. In: ders. Kos between Hellenism and Rome. Studies on the political, institutional and social history OF Kos from approx. the middle second century B.C until late antiquity. American Philosophical Siceity, Philadelphia 2000. (Transactions OF the American Philosophical Society, 90, 4) P. 66-110. ISBN 0-87169-904-4
• Pure hard Wolters: C. Stertinius Xenophon of Kos and the grave inscription of the Trimalchio. In: Hermes 127, 1, 1999, P. 47-60.

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