Apollo ̄nios (Paradoxographer) (150 – 100 BCE?)
Wrote Historiai thaumasiai in 51 chapters. The first six sections focus on six thaumatographers
(E, Aristeas, Hermotimos, Abaris, P, P). Chapters 7 to
51 make up a paradoxographical collection of brief anecdotes, mainly treating botanical,
anthropological, physical and ethnographic curiosities.
Very often Apollo ̄nios mentions his sources, often highly authoritative authors, such as
A (Phusika 7; 9; 21–23; 37; 51; Zo ̄ika 27; 28; Peri Zo ̄io ̄n 44; etc.), T
(Peri phuto ̄n 16; 29; 31–34; 41–43; 47–48; 50; etc.), A (30; 40), Theopompos
(1; 10), K (17, 20), Phularkhos (4; 18), perhaps B and many others.
When Apollo ̄nios lived cannot be determined with certainty. That most of his sources
flourished at the turn of the 3rd c. BCE, while none is later than the first half of the 2nd c.
BCE, suggests a slightly later date. Attempts to identify the paradoxographer with any other
known homonym remain futile.
Ed.: PGR 119 – 143.
RE 18.3 (1949) 1137–1166 (§14, 1152–55), K. Ziegler; Giannini (1964) 122–123; OCD3 127, R.L.
Hunter; BNP 10 (2007) 506–509 (I.B.1, 508–509), O. Wenskus.
Jan Bollansée, Karen Haegemans, and Guido Schepens
Apollo ̄nios, Claudius (40? – 80 CE)
A twice cites an Apollo ̄nios via A, in G, CMGen 5.12 (13.835
K.) for a wound remedy of litharge, psimuthion, etc., and for a cough drop of saffron,
licorice, myrrh, white pepper, tragacanth, etc., CMLoc 7.2 (13.31–32 K.). Wellmann identi-
fies this man with the Apollo ̄nios Claudius cited by A, in Gale ̄n, Antid. 2.11
(14.171–172 K.) for a hudrophobia remedy involving ashed crabs, clover, licorice, etc., in
Falernian wine. Wellmann (followed by Korpela) supports this by reading arkhiate ̄r tou auto-
kratoros for the garble ΑΡΧIΣΤΡΑΤΩΡ in the first passage.
RE 2.1 (1895) 150 (#105), M. Wellmann; Korpela (1987) 166.
PTK
Apollo ̄nios Glaukos (250 BCE – 100 CE)
Discussed the expulsion of round worms from the anus in Internal Diseases. Empty dead
worms indicate recovery; live, full, bloody worms denote trouble (S in C
A, Chron. 4.113, CML 6.1.2, p. 838). Listed after, and probably later than,
H.
RE 2.1 (1895) 151 (#107), M. Wellmann.
GLIM
Apollo ̄nios “Ophis” (Snake), “Organikos,” “The ̄r” (Beast) (225 – 25 BCE)
E pr. (p. 5 Nachm.) lists his predecessors apparently in chronological order,
placing Apollo ̄nios Ophis after B and before D P; and
A-103 (p. 23 Nachm.) says that Apollo ̄nios The ̄r explained ambe ̄ (H J 7
[4.88 Littré]) as “projection.” (If ophis is not a precision of the ̄r, it may stand for “snake-
bald,” ophiasis, thus, like phakas, “warty,” indicating a physical distinction.) A
P., in G CMGen 5.15 (13.856 K.), cites a mineral-based recipe of Apollo ̄nios
APOLLO ̄NIOS (PARADOXOGRAPHER)