Mantias, (; 3rd century BC) a Greek physician who was the tutor of Heraclides of Tarentum,Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen., ii. 15, vol. xiii. p. 462, 502 and one of the followers of Herophilus;Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen., vi. 9, vol. xii. p. 989 and who lived therefore most probably in the 3rd century BC. Galen says that he was no ordinary physician,Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, ii. 1, vol. xii. p. 534 and that he was the first who wrote a regular work on pharmacy.Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen., vii. 91, vol. xiii. p. 462 His works on the subject, which are several times quoted by Galen, are lost, but the titles of some of them have been preserved.Galen, De Simplic. Medicam. Temper. ac Facult., vi. praef. vol. xi. p. 795; Comment in Hippocr. De Offic. Med. praef. and i. 5, vol. xviii. pt. ii. pp. 629, 666; De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen., iv. 14, vol. xiii. p. 751
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