means of specific horoscopes. Hadrian’s horoscope, preserved by Hephaistio ̄n (2.18), is
exceptionally elaborate.
Ed.: S. Heilen, Hadriani genitura. Die astrologischen Fragmente des Antigonos von Nikaia. Edition, Übersetzung und
Kommentar (2006).
Alexander Jones
“Antikythera Device” (120 – 100 BCE)
Discovered in 1900–1901 by sponge divers from a shipwreck of ca 60 BCE off Antikythera
island, this bronze and wood device (a box ca 10 by 20 by 30 cm) containing triangular-
toothed gears was reconstructed by Price as a calendar computer for predicting lunar and
(possible) solar eclipses; a crank was turned to drive the gears from day to day. The device
displays the Babylonian “Saros” cycle, the 235 months of the 19-year cycle of M, and
the 76 years of the cycle of K. Enough of the text survives to show that a para-
pe ̄gma was inscribed on the bronze front of the box. Recent re-examination by Freeth at al.
has recovered further text, containing the word sphairion, which Keyser argued was the name
for such a device, although Freeth et al. see a reference to a (lost) indicator for the sun or
moon. They also establish that the gearing was based on H’ model of lunar
motion.
D.deS. Price, Gears from the Greeks (1975); P.T. Keyser, “Orreries, the Date of [Plato] Letter ii, and Eudorus
of Alexandria,” AGP 80 (1998) 241–267; T. Freeth et al., “Decoding the ancient Greek astronomical
calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism,” Nature 444 (2006) 587–591.
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Antimakhos (30 BCE – 80 CE)
A, in G CMGen 7.13 (13.1034 K.), gives his akopon, composed of fresh
marjoram (sampsukhon), libano ̄tis, aspalathos (D 1.20), savin juniper (named
sabina, showing a Latin source), oak-galls, and beeswax in aged wine and must.
RE S.1 (1903) 91 (#26a), M. Wellmann.
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Antimakhos of He ̄liopolis (unknown date)
The Souda A-2682 records that Antimakhos wrote a Kosmopoiia in 3,700 hexameters.
RE 1.2 (1894) 2436 (#25), G. Knaack.
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Antiokhis of Tlo ̄s (95 – 55 BCE)
Honored with a statue by Tlo ̄s for her medical expertise (TA M 2.2, #595), and by H-
T with a book-dedication, she was perhaps the daughter of D.
A P., in G CMLoc 9.2 (13.350 K.) = 10.1 (13.341), cites her
terebinth-based ointment for arthritis, dropsy, and sciatica (as prepared by F).
BNP 1 (2002) 761–762 (#2), V. Nutton.
PTK
“ANTIKYTHERA DEVICE”