child, and later they reared daughters. He also taught in Alexandria and apparently
returned to Aphrodisias ca 485 CE. He wrote a lost commentary on P’s Timaios and
attempted to reconstruct the “enharmonic” scale. He was a careful and expert farmer, and a
devoted pagan, reviving pagan worship in Aphrodisias, at great personal expense, so that
despite his wealth, he bequeathed his estates encumbered by debt.
PLRE 2 (1980) 161–162; Athanassiadi (1999) 212–216.
PTK
Askle ̄piodotos (of Nikaia?) (40 BCE – 30 CE)
A student of P, whose meteorological theories S cites on the volcanic
isle Hiera (QN 2.26.6), on thunder and lightning produced by the collision of solid bodies
(2.30.1), on the discovery of subterranean lakes (5.15.1), and on earthquakes generating
winds and transmitting shocks (6.17.2–3, 6.22.1). He is perhaps identical with the tactician
whose treatise Tactical Summary details technical aspects of the organization and disposition
of an ideal phalanx.
GGP 4.2 (1994) 709, P. Steinmetz; OCD3 187, J.B. Campbell; BNP 2 (2003) 100 (#2), L. Burckhardt.
PTK and GLIM
Askle ̄pion/Askle ̄pios (Med.) (250 – 75 BCE)
G, Diff. Morb. 9 (6.869 K.), mentions that a certain Nikomakhos of Smurna became
immobile because of obesity, but “Askle ̄pios cured him” – god or man? G 20.6,
citing H T, ascribes works on nutrition from fish to Askle ̄pios,
M, P, and -D. Hipp. Cant. 31.2 (2.166–167 ed. Oder-
Hoppe) mentions Askle ̄pio ̄n’s spleen-remedy.
RE 2.2 (1896) 1698 (#8), M. Wellmann.
PTK
Askle ̄pios (Pharm.) (ca 515 – ca 565 CE)
A T (in Metaphys. 995b20 = CAG 6.2 [1888] 143) cites a homonymous
pharmacist, fellow-student of A and later a teacher of pharmacy. He composed a
commentary on the H A (Westerink, CMG 11.1.3.1 [1985] 17–23).
RE 2.2 (1896) 1698 (#6), J. Freudenthal, (#9), M. Wellmann.
PTK
Askle ̄pios of Tralleis (Math.) (515 – 565 CE)
Neo-Platonic mathematician and philosopher, student of A, wrote a commen-
tary on N’ Arithmetica, derived from Ammo ̄nios’ lectures and surviving as
lengthy scholia. Askle ̄pios also wrote a commentary (CAG 6.2) on A’s Metaphysics
A–Z, valuable primarily for testimonia of Ammo ̄nios as well as extracts from A
A.
RE 2.2 (1896) 1697–8 (#5), A. Gerke; L. Tarán, Asclepius of Tralles: Commentary to Nicomachus’ Introduc-
tion to Arithmetic (1969).
GLIM
ASKLE ̄PIODOTOS (OF NIKAIA?)