Apollodo ̄ros of Seleukeia (Tigris) (175 – 125 BCE)
A student of D B, called Ephe ̄los from his cataracts, Apollodo ̄ros wrote
an Introduction to the Doctrines (which included Ethics and Physics), a comprehensive and sys-
tematic defense of orthodox Stoic logic and epistemology, preserved by A D
and D L. Apollodo ̄ros argues for a completely material and continuous,
living, sensible, and rational kosmos, surrounded by an infinite void (D.L. 7.142–143). He
used geometry to define fundamental physical concepts: so bodies have three-fold extension,
while surfaces, which limit bodies, have only two-fold extension (D.L. 7.135). He believed
change and continuity in place or shape explained motion and rest (Ar. Did. fr.24). Time he
thought to be the “extension of cosmic motion” (Ar. Did. fr.26), and vision he explained as
light between viewer and object stretching into a cone, extending from its base at the object
seen to the apex at the eye. Air stretching between viewer and object relays visual data to the
viewer (D.L. 7.157). See T A (S).
DPA 1 (1989) 276–278, M.-O. Goulet-Cazé; GGP 4.2 (1994) 635, P. Steinmetz; ECP 44 – 45, S.A. White.
GLIM
Apollodo ̄ros of Taras (325 BCE – 75 CE)
Doctor whose writings were known to P, 1.ind.20–27; he preferred straight radish juice
as an antidote to mistletoe poisoning, 20.25.
RE 1.2 (1894) 2895 (#70), M. Wellmann.
Philip Thibodeau
Apollo ̄nide ̄s (100 – 50 BCE)
Wrote a Periplous of Europe which S cites thrice (7.4.3 M’ war
against the Skuths, 11.13.2 northern Media, and 11.14.4 mythical Median snow-worms)
and P once (7.17 Skuthian women’s evil-eye). The scholia to Apollo ̄nios of Rhodes offer
further fragments.
BNP 1 (2002) 867 (#1), K. Brodersen.
PTK
Apollo ̄nide ̄s of Cyprus (fl. ca 150 CE)
Called a surgeon by A D, Onirocriticon, 4.2 (p. 245 Pack = p. 188
White), and listed among the excoriated Methodists by G, MM 1.7 (10.54 K. =
1991: 27, and -G, I 14.684 K.). He may well be the Appius
Apollo ̄nide ̄s addressed in a letter from Fronto (Ad amicos, 1.2: ed. Naber, p. 174 = ed. and
trans. Haines v. 1 [Loeb 1919] 286–289; cf. Pack 1955: 285–286). Apollo ̄nide ̄s taught
I the Methodist, and studied under O M (Gale ̄n 10.54
K.). Gale ̄n, further, accuses Apollo ̄nide ̄s of mangling descriptions of the pulses, presuming
he could understand them without actual clinical observations, dressing his false depictions
in pedantic and elaborate terminologies (Causes of Pulses 3.9 [9.138–139 K.]).
Ed.: Tecusan (2004) frr. 19, 108, and 162.
RE 2.1 (1895) 121 (#33), M. Wellmann; R.A. Pack, “Artemidorus and his Waking World,” TA PA 86
(1955) 280–290.
John Scarborough
APOLLO ̄NIDE ̄S OF CYPRUS