The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists: The Greek tradition and its many heirs

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p. 640.11–12], 2.187 [CML 6.1.1, p. 658.14]). Gale ̄n mentions Antipatros’ collection of
recipes for compound medicines (CMLoc 9.5, 13.292 K.) and further quotes recipes via
A (from this collection or not) as used by Antipatros (CMLoc 3.3, 12.684 K.:
nasal polyps; CMLoc 6.6, 12.936 K.: oral wounds; and 13.292 K.: dysentery and tenesmus).
He might be the same Antipatros who created the recipes bearing his name in Gale ̄n
(CMLoc 9.2, 13.239 K.: draught for spleen disease; CMLoc 3.1, 12.630 K.: against pain in
the ears). Antipatros composed a Mithridateion (Antid. 2.1, 14.108–109 K.) and a theriac
whence the antidote to asp-bites Gale ̄n himself used (Antid. 2.10, 14.160 K.). It is unknown
(though typical of the 1st c. CE) whether the same physician, perhaps a specialist in
pharmaceutical therapeutics (particularly compound medicines), authored all these works.


RE 1.2 (1894) 2517 (#32), M. Wellmann; Watson (1966) 37–43.
Alain Touwaide


Antipatros (Methodist) (ca 50 – 193 CE)


Physician listed among the Methodists post-dating T and T (G,
MM 1.7.5 [10.52–53 K. = p. 27 Hankinson], -G, I 14.684 K. =
frr. 162, 283 Tecusan), but omitted from other Methodist catalogues. Tecusan (2004: 46)
identifies as a Methodist the homonymous author of medical letters, in at least three
books (C A Chron. 2.157, 187 [CML 6.1.1, pp. 640, 658] = frr. 68, 72),
which addressed the application of the number three to medical treatments, and the cau-
tious use of bandaging and its concomitant dangers, in defense of a Methodist stance. But
if this Antipatros’ addressee “Gallus” was A G (as has been suggested), he
would predate Thessalos. See also A (P.), whose interests accord with the
Methodist profile. Gale ̄n records an Antipatros in Rome, whose alarm, when fevered, at an
erratic pulse led to his self-treatment of that fever with baths, exercise, and plain simple foods
(Affected Parts 4 [8.293–294 K.] = fr. 153 Tecusan). That Gale ̄n treats his contemporary
respectfully and without disputation may render his Methodism unlikely (Tecusan 2004: 48).


Tecusan (2004) 45–51.
GLIM


Antipatros (of Tarsos?) (ca 200 – 100 BCE?)


The second Greek, after B and before A, to study astrology
(V 9.6.2); perhaps the Stoic A  T.


RE 1.2 (1894) 2517 (#34), E. Riess.
GLIM


Antipatros of Tarsos (ca 160 – 130 BCE)


Student and successor of D  B as head of the Stoa in ca 150 BCE, and
teacher of P. Died at an old age in ca 130 BCE by drinking poison. He worked
innovatively in many areas of philosophy and was noted as a particularly gifted logician.
S E praised him highly as a philosopher. In opposition to the standard
Stoic position, Antipatros claimed that there were such things as single-premise arguments
(such as “if you are breathing, you are alive”). He is credited with introducing the adjective
as a distinct class of word in Greek grammar (omitted by C  S and


ANTIPATROS OF TARSOS
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