14th c. Constantinople, the Krale ̄, with which the Bolognese MS is linked, suggesting that
Arkhelaos’ works were still in use at that time.
Ed.: G. Baffioni, “Inediti di Archelao da una codice Bolognese,” Bollettino del Comitato per la preparazione
dell’ edizione nazionale dei classici greci e latini ns 3 (1954) 57–76.
Diels 2 (1907) 16.
Alain Touwaide
Arkhelaos (Veterin.) (ca 100 – 300 CE?)
Author of a recipe for a trokhiskos; the recipe is preserved in the Hippiatrika as a quotation
in the treatise of A (Hippiatrica Parisina 772 = Hippiatrica Berolinensia 129.27).
CHG v.1; McCabe (2007).
Anne McCabe
Arkhelaos of Athens (ca 460 – 440 BCE)
A student of A and teacher of So ̄crate ̄s, he propounded a cosmology broadly
similar to that of Anaxagoras, positing material stuffs as basic principles. Hot and cold
caused these to differentiate into the four elements recognized by E: earth,
water, air and fire. Moisture gathered in the center of the world, where heat caused some of
it to turn into air and rise, while another part solidified into earth. The earth is a concave
disk, which originally was swampy in the middle so as to produce living things. Mind is
found in all animals, and it mixes with the stuffs of the world. Arkhelaos seems also to have
reflected on ethics and political theory but apparently made no significant advances in
scientific theory or observation.
DK 60; KRS 385–389; V. Tilman, “Archélaos d’Athènes,” Revue de Philosophie Ancienne (2000) 65–107.
Daniel W. Graham
Arkhelaos (of He ̄rakleia Salbake ̄?) (40 – 95 CE)
A P., in G CMLoc 9.6 (13.312 K.), preserves his recipe to treat anal
prolapse, compounded from lead-slag, rose blossoms, rhubarb, and myrrh. Uncertain is the
identification of our Arkhelaos with the son of Euneikos, physician, priest, gymnasiarch,
and stephanophoros whose virtue and skill is acclaimed in an inscription from He ̄rakleia
Salbake ̄, ca 50 CE (Robert and Robert 2.177, #70).
J. and L. Robert, La Carie II: Le Plateau de Tabai (1954); RE S.14 (1974) 56 (#37a), J. Benedum.
GLIM
Arkhelaos of Kappadokia (36 BCE – 17 CE)
Was installed by M. Antonius as king of Kappadokia, which he ruled until his death. P
makes him the author of writings on animals, agriculture, and stones (1.ind.8–9, 17–18, 37).
However, the anecdotes on animals (8.202, 218) are copied from Varro, RR 2.3.5, 3.12.4,
and Varro’s source is clearly A K (3.16.4; note that Varro men-
tions Arkhelaos several times but does not cite him in his index of sources). It would appear
that Pliny’s claims that the king wrote on animals, and perhaps agriculture as well, are based
on a mistaken inference from Varro’s text. Since Jacoby, scholars have identified the king
ARKHELAOS (VETERIN.)