Artemido ̄ros of Ephesos (104 – 101 BCE)
Greek geographer, author of an 11-book geographical description of the world preserved in
an epitome by M H. The work, divided into three sections (Europe,
Libya and Asia), included distances between sites and measurements of geographical fea-
tures along the lines of a traditional periplous perhaps partially based on his own travels.
Part of it was devoted to Ionic Notes (upomne ̄mata), which may have been a separate work. The
work also included calculations of the measurements of the inhabited world. Artemido ̄ros
started his description of the oikoumene ̄ with the Iberian peninsula as did also S
K and S K before him and S, P and
D A after him. Book 1 was introductory, Book 2 described Spain
and Lusitania, Book 3 Gallia, and so forth around the Mediterranean. Artemido ̄ros’ sources
were mainly A, M and the geographers of Alexander the
Great, and he himself became an important source for later geographers including Strabo ̄n.
Artemido ̄ros’ work had been known only through literary references, but recently a papyrus
excerpt of the text was discovered including a prooimion saying that geography is a branch of
philosophy, and a description of Spain – its name, political situation, coasts and distances
between sites. Micunco casts doubt on the authenticity of the animal drawings on the verso,
Canfora on the text of Artemido ̄ros, in that papyrus.
GGM 1.574–576; FGrHist 438; C. Gallazi and B. Kramer, “Artemidor in Zeichensaal. Eine Papyrus-
rolle mit Text, Landkarte und Skizzenbüchern aus späthellenistischer Zeit,” APF 44 (1998) 189–208;
S. Settis and C. Gallazzi, Le tre vite del Papiro di Artemidoro: Voci e sguardi dall’Egitto greco-romano (2006); St.
Micunco, “Figure di animali: il verso del papiro di Artemidoro,” Quaderni di Storia 64 (2006) 5–43;
L. Canfora, “Postilla Testuale Sul Nuovo Artemidoro,” ibid. 45 – 60.
Daniela Dueck
Artemido ̄ros of Parion (70 – 50 BCE)
Wrote an account of the kosmos collecting opinions of A, A
M, and others; entitled Phainomena, if B S (P) refers
to the same man, or if he is the same as the writer on A (Robiano). S, QN
1.4.3–4, describes Artemido ̄ros’ explanation of rainbows as specular reflections from clouds,
and 7.13 his theory of multiple normally unseen orbiting bodies, under a heaven congealed
from atoms (Goulet sees an Epicurean), and with apertures admitting occasional extra-
cosmic fire.
DPA 1 (1989) 604, P. Robiano and 614, R. Goulet; P.T. Keyser, “On Cometary Theory and Typology
from Nechepso-Petosiris through Apuleius to Servius,” Mnemosyne 47 (1994) 625–651 at 649–650.
PTK
Artemido ̄ros of Perge ̄, Cornelius (75 – 70 BCE)
K, in G CMLoc 5.3 (12.828–829 K.), preserves his pill for facial growths (copper
flakes, khalkanthon, and alum, in clear carpenter’s glue and vinegar). C, Ve r r. II 3,
provides the ethnic and nomen (54), and scurrilous anecdotes (ibid. 69–60, 117, 138). Diels
(1905–1907) 2.19 records a British Museum MS, 16C XVI (16th c.), f.8, of his work On
Urines (in epitome?). Cf. perhaps C (P.).
RE 2.1 (1895) 1332 (#33), M. Wellmann; Korpela (1987) 157–158.
PTK and GLIM
ARTEMIDO ̄ROS OF PERGE ̄, CORNELIUS