Aristeide ̄s (of Knidos?) (360 – 325 BCE?)
Cited twice by P for names of islands: 4.64 Euboia is “Long Island” (Makra), and 4.70
Me ̄los is MIMBLIS; Pliny 1.ind.4 lists him between E and A, possibly
indicating the date-range. Jacoby tentatively identifies with the writer of Knidiaka.
FGrHist 444.
PTK
Aristeide ̄s of Samos (360 – 50 BCE)
V, Hebd. 1 (in Gellius 3.10.6), reports that he cited the 28-day lunar month as evidence
of the power of seven in nature (cf. A, On the Decade). Scholars suggest emending
to A S, but the more obscure person is the lectio difficilior.
RE 2.1 (1895) 896 (#26), G. Kauffmann.
PTK
Aristio ̄n, father and grandson (Mech.) (200 – 160 and 140 – 80 BCE?)
Aristio ̄n (or Kharistio ̄n), the father of the physician and pharmacologist P
(O Coll. 49.24, 26 = CMG 6.2.2., pp. 36–38, 41–43), was a medical engineer who
may have developed the balance (kharistion) employing a ratio between the motor power, the
weight moved, and the space traveled, which S credits to A (in Phys.
7.5: CAG 10 [1895] 1110). He designed a triple-pulley (trispaston) described by Oreibasios
(Coll. 49.15–27, pp. 26–43), which the grandson then altered. One of the two developed also
a plaster for fractures, if “Aristos” is to be read as Aristio ̄n (S L 209).
P. Duhem, Origins of Statics (1905–1906; translated, 1991) 65–66, 70–73; Drachmann (1963) 181–183;
Michler (1968) 87–88, 130–131.
PTK and GLIM
Aristippos of Kure ̄ne ̄ (225 – 175 BCE?)
Author of a doxographical account On the Natural Philosophers, known only for explaining
P’ name (D L 8.21). The author is probably the philosopher
of the new Academy, student of L (Classen 180; cf. E, PE 14.7.14). D.L.
8.60 also cites him on the love of E for P. The student of So ̄crate ̄s
who taught and wrote that pleasure was the goal of life (ca 410 – ca 360 BCE) does not seem
probable; nor his grandson Aristippos (D.L. 2.83; cf. S 17.3.22 and A,
NA 3.40).
C.J. Classen, “Bemerkungen zu zwei griechischen, Philosophiehistorikern’,” Philologus 109 (1965)
175 – 181; SSR 4.155–168, esp. 164; BNP 1 (2002) 1103–1104, K.-H. Stanzel.
PTK
Aristoboulos (250 BCE – 50 CE?)
Wrote an On stones quoted by -P (De fluu. 14.3 [1158C]) reporting a frag-
ment from the first book, treating a stone similar to crystal, common in the river Tanais. He
is to be distinguished from A K and from the homonymous
Aristoboulos, often quoted as a source by pseudo-Plutarch in his Parallela minora. He could,
ARISTOBOULOS